The Rev. W. Gix-lies said that in order that there should be any decided improve ment ..in the Psalmody of the Church, the congregrations must bave training for a length of time. There should bea compe tent leader to the congregations. A man attending to thirty or forty congregations could not be precentor to those congrega tions.—(llev. W. Bannerman : It is not asked.) It greatly depended upon the leader of the congregation what the cha racter of; the singing should be: .Therel would not be the advantages that were ex pected from a mere itinerant professor of music. The system proposed had failed in the case of Mr Taylor in the Government Schools, and the extent of district over which the. congregations were spread was precisely the same as,that over which the 150 schools were located.
The Rev. Dr. Copland, thought it would be much easier to visit 40 congregations than about 150 schools.'

: The Rev.; W. Gillies went.on to say that they had a singing clas3 at the Taieri for two years, but as yet there was no great im provement in the psalmody of the congrega tion itself. There was sometimes a jarring through the older members keeping a different' time ; They mii'sb have trained leaders for their congregations. He did not think an itinerant teacher would be of much advantage to the Church, and therefore could not exactly coincide with the proposal now made. - . •..■:.
