Bishop Told He Was Being Boring
If any of his audience should get bored he wanted them to tell him immediately and he would stop talking, the Right Rev N. A. Lesser, Bishop of Waiapu, told an audience of the Whakatane Church of England Men’s Society on Wednesday night. “Please do this as I won’t feel hurt,” he assured them. Bishop Lesser told his audience that on another occasion he was conducting'"a service with children and had asked his youthful audience to put up their hands if they got tired of listening.to him. “Immediately,” he added, “one boy put his hand up. So I stopped talking. Now I only ask an audience of men to > tell if they should get bored listening to me,” he said amid laughter/
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 59, 4 November 1949, Page 8
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