LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

':.-": ':'■>:. : ; ? "■■ : -r,V U >.«i- ■: ;■■■■::■■■:/- - '■■:.-:,■ 'U'S'&mWi : EAUPO BOOTS. '; ... '■ ' . ■.". • • ■ .;:;..: j ':•:'■ .. >■■ " ' : ; p Sir,—The article -on '* Baupo »*. hi Sir. Ben Keys, in ; Saturday's Keeai© is informative. ; But in one matter h« "ss* hardly fair to raapo j that is, in the edibility of the ■« roots, - He says they; *riS not a£/all; palatable. V Freshly dag, .tfcsy/ rarely are nice, hot dag: up and ;deaiieaf and left for/a day. or two {frosty; weather; for preference) in tha sun in a dry, '[<&!s&■ place they are.; edible, and ./-_' youngsters wo tHought they waw well worth making- nse -of- I -do. not; know of any food that has tho eof^i pulpy, slightly sweet Savour, with ' a good deal : of. nutty taste. If it were taken in - hand and " improved ** in growth it should inaks a good food ■-■' for invalids. ' Sam. A. Bbowks. '* THE' WATTOMO CAVES. _'; t Sir,-—I i have bsen .revisiting the Wsiiomo and other caves, and am very much surprised that such :an asset should still in so primitive a state. Iters are stumbling stones and mud-holes, for, the lanternless and unwary, besides the. .lack of lawns and courts for bowls, -tennis, os croquet. This* is the more ; surprising u nature has provided • the lawns. . . It is very romantic to have the caves {*»■'«!£ some" recesses lighted occasionally with magnesium ; wire, hut one'could see much more of the beauty and certainly with much greater." comfort if the caves were lighted with electricity. Would- «,his be a difficult matter f with falling wter so near. One feels" 'put Ito shame .when ; accompanied by visitors from America and Australia, " when one /.sees them stumbling about in semi-darkness. - a . V ' ';;.

Thames. J-.g- Qoorr - TAUPO RAILWAY. Sir,-An item of news In Tuesday's Wld is of thefirst importance, to^Auck-land-a to be; kahi to Lake Taupo within two ; years,; Anyone with even a. rudunentary ledge of the geography of the land/ may ./see at a gfance what this means -tSe tide and wealth oT thejhole»£ terior of the North Island^g lington instead of :to its . naturaL outlet at \ncklandv were tho emended from Botorua to Taupo. It is taMg-. laud awakened to this. There is no railway so important.:; Your East, Coast ra way and ycur North Auckland railway ; will bring no new ' freight to .Auckland, i Freiffht will come by land mstead of by water. That is all. Whereas, a railway into ' the ? interior will open up & : ,▼«»: i country containing one-tenth the whole cultivable; land.in the North Island-an ! area vast wealth timber, minerals■ ' and agricultural produce will-be recognised. 'when present ignorant prejudices are reI legated to the same limiJO those; ! formerly existing against ; tte Waikato.Jhej Karaka,./'North.,-Auckland, : etc, Is tta£. Etreat trade to go to Auckland or Wehnig-; ton? ________ TATJKX

i . • CATTLE TICK. . j; Sir,—l have read with interest Mr.| | Crawford's letter re I cattle tick, as pt^-K lished in your i ?colu3iiasvbu DeceMber .29$ 11 have just left, cot Soufc Africa, but to&Ji I centre of the tick : infested district m our ■. own Dominion,; MangaJnuka;v;ailci 1 Cs3l: assure dairymen that there is bo need for ' i panic. In: the first pfaeor our tick ris not ! the South African Bifecie%:i.ffind"l: have ; never known a case Mi fever or any ill, effects: from attacks of that inaeck It is eight years siace I first came across the pest, and, through:'the courtesy* of bur Government Agricultural Department I 'learned its life history.- ; Through the m-. years I have never in any or,e i sbson found in my ; herd more than-a : i doHenV or twenty. - From September to • the end of the year I examined my herd morning and ' evening.? The ? insects are found clinging to the escutcheon or around the root.' of the tail, v sometimes on; the ears. '-At' first they are: ionaH;iimfc in th« course of eight to are;.dia^ tended to the size of a pea, and are.emta; nicked off, carrying in their grip a little,. Ibit Jof the outside skin.- ! This oaeratiou does not take long, audit persevered in. is much more effectual -than dipping and keeps the pest in check. .Of course, with run cattle it is diiMr.Bnt. i '■have noticed that ticks are most prevalent' where iihfii grass has been allowed to grow rank, said were fire passed through that paddock ; in«tl>9 autumn it would, thoroughly rid, area, for a. least. | . ' "Bekbx Law. - Bell Block, Tamrki.

THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND. *'■ Sir—The letter of "Calholicos". re the Rev. Wi C. Wood's statement that there never was a Roman Church /in England contains much with which it- would be impossible to deal , adequately in a letterbat will you afiow mo space to.deny absolutely the truth of. his/dictum that "There jaaver -r was in - : history a church in communion.; with/: Rome that did not take % "* religion, organisation,'; and 1 legislation ffpm Rome." -Three British bishops attended tho Council of Aries in 314: A/D., and others/ the : Council: of ' Azimmum .vin- 359; Obviously they, were;in communion with. Rome, / but; they were not dependent en her foe' religion; organisation; ■ Off IcgiHaiioh./When St. AugUstina araved in 597 ho ' found seven bishops .-'and archbishop, and ; every schoolboy knows that they were not willing to give up "the customs of their fathers/ in order to come, into, line, with the demands of either -St. Augustine or St." Gregory. / The modem Itomaiii will say Ust These "men were schismatics." We Anglicans: deny if;. and. affirm that "' the British Church was a/live:'branch of the Catholic Church* allowing, .as we allow, a primacy to': the Roman See, but knowmg nothing "of a universal bishop. ~; For 500 years the Papacy struggled to overcome the Church of England, but; never fully succeeded.'- The laws of- England never allowed the right of the lope to rule there, The canon law vof ~the Church/of .Rome did not prevail in tine Church of Eugland unless itvwas-vcluntanly accepted. With the Norman Conquest this s'/aruggle.: was intensified. > /By this/time the Papacy was an ■■■■ overwhelming despotism over largo part ;of Europe, and it -straggled with all its might; to*convort its: irfl'owed primacy into a supremacy, in England, but such statutes as Proves, 1550. show that its end i was not attained without protest; The Anglo-Saxon Church' was a national independent and: self Church, allowing a-priinaEy to Rome,: The mediaeval Church was a suffering and cruelly-in-jured Church under ;the exactions and do* mands of Rome, "Catholicos":sayß,Caed-' walla and Imv went: to: Rome, : the one to be • baptised by' the; Fope; |he other, ,1 presume,, to pay his respects. /.The Venerable 5 Beds tells • us of these visits, but dtfc -tinctly says that they were made/tt*,? the pilgrims might go "to the threshoW of the apostles,'» viz./ St: Pejier/ and ,fat, f Paul,-a ; natural thing to /do,- but notim-* volving any ; idea of submission to &~tefx>l& nition of the Pope' as a universal bisaap* As -for: the "pallium," r any- student ■history knows that*vtbiß article of, dre» ousted the toga as the outdoor gw^e|| of the Roman gentleman in the tune M the Emperor Augustus, and gradually 6 -; i coming attenuated, /became the badge'b* | authority, of Officials of State, much ; aS:ta| I'Wig ■is -now used by barristers and J u P^|q i When the Western emperors ceased w : i Augustulas; the Bishop.of Rome, WW, i powerful person left in Rome, w *jJil i Emperor's consent, or at his desire, ; h*B?|; I to" 1 -confer- this distinction on Hlofitnm 'citizens ■ and strangers. /While 'Rcni%B£i ; khbwledgedf allegians to the Eastern en>i perbrs/i the bishop usually: quotes K^ .mission /of the \Emperor, but when« i West threw off its allegiance he, B*SS f the honour by his own M^thon^^Sp until the ninth century T^^StM ridded -aV necessary for thev full^^ ifirmitioh-of an archbishop in ha sßfvSm pallium, in short, was accepted f».».Wti of distinction conferred by - the, §£«*». Roman See, sr.d only l?Wf became a symbol of subjection. ftnaat'S Vicar of rT»l»P«'i?li>. / ; ~""£[■