A CONTRADICTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 304, 14 February 1879, Page 17

A CONTRADICTION.

To the Editor of the N. Z. Tablet. Sir, — It would be but affectation to suppose that any other than Knox Church was referred to in a paragraph copied into your journal of 31st ult. from '• a northern contemporary," and therefore I take upon myself to correct the statement therein contained. Such an alteration in the arrangements of the choir as is suggested in the paragraph has not in any way been thought of by me, and most certainly has not been found desirable. — I am, Sec, W. G. Innes, Precentor, Knox Church. ("The paragraph referred to was found by us in the Poverty Bay Standard, and ran as follows :— " The other day a member of the

choir of one of the Dunedin churches, named after the great Scottish reformer, requested the Precentor to alter the arrangements of his choir, so as to allow o f the ladles (?) sitting on one side, and the sewing girl* on the other ! ! ! Some months ago in the same Church the (then) Pre entor found he had, to keep his choir together, to have two practice flights, ostensibly for morning and evening service, but those composing the morning choir were the ladies (?) and those of the evening choir the sewing girl*.'' Ed. N. Z. Tablet.