majority"> PARKER, Judge.

After the jury had deliberated for some time the foreman reported, in response to an inquiry from the judge, that for the preceding two hours they had made no progress toward a verdict. The judge then instructed the jury as follows:

“I’m going to let you go to lunch, at this time, and have you come back and resume your deliberations.

“You have heard all the evidence that any jury will be áblé'to hear in the case, and if you don’t agree upon a verdict, some other jury will have to be called in to decide it. ■

“The Court does not feel that any jury could be more competent to find the facts than this one, so for that reason, the Court is going to ask you to go back and deliberate further after lunch. And when you reach a verdict, let the Court know and I will have you brought in Court.

“All right. You may go now to lunch and report back in here at two o’clock, so that I can see that all of you are accounted for, and then you will go directly'to the jury room.”

Defendant complains that the foregoing charge was coercive and compelled an unwilling jury or some of its members to surrender their conscientious opinions in order to reach a verdict.We do not agree. Although the court failed to include an admonition that-no member of the jury should surrender his conscientious convictions in order to agree upon a verdict, a cautionary warning which might have been necessary to cure a coercive instruction, State v. McKissick, 268 N.C. 411, 150 S.E. 2d 767 (1966), we do not find the instruction in the present case to be in any way coercive. On the contrary, it was entirely proper for the judge to ask the jury to go back and deliberate further. See cases cited in 3 Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Criminal Law, § 122. We find nothing said or done by the judge in this case which might have caused any member of the jury to surrender his own conscientious convictions in order to reach the verdict rendered.

No error.

Chief Judge Brock and Judge Martin concur.

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