BISHOP WHYTE AND THE CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 3

BISHOP WHYTE AND THE CABLES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Considerable comment has been made on the abuse heaped on our Mother Country by Dr Liston, tho Roman Catholic Bishop at Auckland, and it is to tho credit of our fellow-colonists in tho northern city that the disgraceful attack of this loyal (sic) Irish citizen should have been repudiated. But what of tho Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin (Dr Whyte), wtio on St. Patrick’s Night made this" statement, as reported by tile local papers ?

When people had been telling lies for years, as the compilers of tho cablegrams had been doing, it was very difficult for them to get back to tho prosaic duty of telling the truth; and hence we still had accounts of murders and accidents in Ireland.

This statement of Dr Whyte’s is either true or false. If true, the reporters in London who are responsible _ for .compiling our cables should be dismissed. If fake, what should be done to Dr Whyte? Is the Press Association given to quiescence under such a charge, and to make no reply thereto? Will it not call on tho bishop to name (ho “false” news sent? Or is it that men ref courage are to bo found only in Auckland? Or are the manager's of the Frees Association milksops, who have not the courage to defend their employees in London? If tho statements of the bishop are false, then what can be said of the training given in churches and denominational schools?—l am, etc., A British Citizen. March 24.