THE COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1906, Page 6

THE COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES.

TO .TOT! EDITOn. Sir, —Nothing that the Rev. Father deary may now say can alter the fact that the Council of the Churches refused to accept the Rev. Mr. North's motion, on the ground that it was not expedient to single out the Roman Catholic Church ■ for "special reprobation in the matter of gambling at bazaars. Nothing that Father Cleajy may now say can alter the fact that from firet to last his philippics were directed again it the Council of Churches, whose spokesman he assumed Mr. North ti> be. As in his motion, so in the letters that followed, Mr. North spoke exclusively for himself. Father Cleary throughout assumed that Mr. North was speaking for the Council, which, by twehe votes to seven, had rejected Mr. North's motion: No small part of "Father deary's lengthy disquisitions referred to the phrase "in ,toto," for which Mr. North alone was responsible. Throughout Father, Cleary attributed the "in toto" affirmation to the council. Ido not suggest that Father deary's utterances were Intentionally misleading ; they were misleading all the same. Father deary may suspect that there was a larger measure of sympathy in thei council with Mrl North's motion than' .the vote seemed to indicate. Personally I sympathised with the motion, and if Ihad not been in the chair would have said so plainly. But neither Father Cleary's suspicions nor my opinions are anything to tlve present point. The | point' is that the council,'' by a' majority of nearly two to one, rejected Mr. Norm's motion, and that from beginning to end Mr. North spoke for him&elf. The point aU«© is that Father Cleary from beginning 'to'end assailed, not Mr. North, but the Council of Churches. ' ft is, I repeat, a fair sample of a style cf argument with which the editor of the Tab-, let has made the public tolerably familiar. Permit me to add that I shall not write again on this subject. —l am, etc., JAMES GIBB. Wellington, sth July.

Great care is exercised to prevent members of the Recorder's Asiatic crew from losing themselves ashore. For every one that escapes the owners have to forfeit £100, and therefore none are allowed to land lest the temptation to fail to find the way back should prove too strong to be resisted. When the Recorder was here five years ago a- couple of Asiatics escaped, and a sum of £200 had to be transferred to the New Zealand Government, but the foreigners were subsequently recovered and the money was refunded. "The New Zealand Government, recognising the opportunities and advantages that will accrue to them by haying their country better known in the United States and Canada, has closed a contract with the Painter-Toby-Jones Company, of Chicago, approximating 300,000 dollars (£60,000), for advertising its tourist resort*, its International Exhibition (which begins Ist November), and for colonis,ing its millions of acres of land with American fanners who speak the English language." So runs the opening sentence of a paragraph in a Boston publication, Profitable Advertising, for 'May. "This," the paper continues, "is on© of the largest contracts ever made by a foreign Government for advertising purposes in America. It was secured by 'Mr. W. B. Leffingwell, representative of the Painter-Tobey-Jones Company, who made a trip to New Zealand in 1905." This morning a Post reporter mado enquiries of trie Premier as to the truth of the paragraph, and was informed "by the Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones that ho was not aware that tho Government had authorised the expenditure of such a large sum of money. Our representative also saw Mr. Robieson, tho acting chief executive officer of tho Tourist Department, on the subject. Mr. Robieson stated that tho total amount which the department was allowed to spend annually outside the colony in tho way of advertising tho tourist resorts was £5000, and a portion of that sum —certainly not more than £1000 —would be expended in America this year. Mr. J. Ryder, of tho Boot Palace, Cubastreet, near National Bank cornor, in holding a big winter salo of footwear ju«t now. Messrs. Sidey, Meech and Co. advertise partioulan of their usual Saturday's sale, which take* placo at their rooms, Manner*street, to-morrow, commencing 1.30 p.m. .ihtni.