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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 6

AT A LARGE CHURCH, famous for its good music and fashionable congregation, the choir, not so many Sundays ago, had ’just finished singing the “ Te Deum." The closing bars of this composition required the full lung-power of every man and boy—not to mention the organ, in order to achieve the right effect. Thus, there was a good deal of needless exertion on the part of one or two of the choristers. The echoes were still resounding among the rafters and along the aisles, when the clergyman began to read the Second Lesson in a quiet, though clear voice. The lesson was taken from XXth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, opening with these words: “ And after the uproar was ceased . . The reader then paused—apparently to clear his throat!