LISTON ACQUITTAL

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 3

LISTON ACQUITTAL

A DAMAGING MINUTE.

BISHOP DEMANDS EXPUNCTION.

Tho Auckland City Council has received the following letter from Mr Conlan, legal adviser to Dr Liston: —

I have been instructed by His Lordship Bishop Liston to communicate with you regarding an entry in the minute book of the City Council, puqiorting to record certain resolutions passed at a meeting of the council on March 23, 1922. The minutes contain imputations against the reputation of Dr Liston; indeed, they go as far as to impute to him that he committed a crime. The council must now be aware that the result of the recent trial was to establish that such an imputation was unfounded. One of the minutes, therefore, contains reflections upon Dr Liston that are fake, and such minutes are open to inspection by members of the public. I have, therefore, on Dr Liston's behalf, to request that steps be taken by the council to cxpunge_ these minutes, and tc ask you to inform me at the earliest possible date whether this will bo clone. It is hardly necessary to intimate that unless this act of bare justice is done Bishop Liston will be compelled, as the only means that will lead to the expunging of the offensive minutes, to resort to proceedings to recover damages —a course which, in the interest of all

parties, should, if possible, bo avoided. The matter was referred to tho city solicitor and a committee of the whole council.