After Dryburgh penned the entire work(s), Chambers and Dryburgh focused on condensing the scores into 4-part harmony. They divided the group into four separate sections (1,2,3,4 as opposed to the typical ssaa formation). Each group would meet sometime during the day to practice separately and then at night Chambers and Dryburgh would lead the entire group in the Dutch kitchen.Betty Jeffrey, White Coolies, (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1954), 86. However, a singer or two would be missing from rehearsal because of illness.Helen Colijn, Song of Survival: Women Interred, (Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, (1995), 146.
