CABLE DISCREDITED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 11

CABLE DISCREDITED

THE HISTORY OF CUNEO

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "The cable man responsible for the above cable is certainly not strong in geography and history and the ignorance betrayed is sufficient to discredit the whole cable," said the Rev. Father McKeefry, editor of theCath'olic newspaper "Zealandia," referring' to the cable published today announcing the excommuni9ation of Count Ferrari di Celle, of Cuneo, as a sequel to a land dispute with the Vatican. "Cuneo never at any time formed part of the Papal States. . It is in the province of Piedmont, and from 1720, when the ancient family of Savoy assumed sovereign rank, it formed part of the kingdom of Piedmont, and so by 1870, when the Papal States were taken by the Italian Government, Cuneo had been recognised as part of the King of Savoy's territory for 150 years. The Vatican-Italian concordat was signed in 1929, and the only places outside Rome that were set down for further deliberation were the Holy House of Loreton, the Basilica of St. Anthony at Padua, and the triple Basilica of St. Francis and ' the monastery at Assisi. No one has seemingly heard of such a dispute." The sale of milk which was below the standard required by the regulations cost Alice Peagram £2 and costs when the case was heard'before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.