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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18509, 21 March 1922, Page 8

nr SHOP LISTON'S SPKMCTI. TO THE E TUTOR. Sir,- In my ojiin ion the Government Would bn perfectly instilled in presenting Bishop Liston with his purports and ordering him to loavo (lip country within 2h hours. If this is- not. done, lot public moot, ingvs ho called to demand it. Bishop Whytes speech on St. Patrick's Day is open to the same objection as Bishop Liston’s. There can ho no doubt that the sentiments of Bishop Liston and the Tablet are the sentiments of the Roman Catholics generally. When (hoy dare to give public oxnression to them after the manner of the insolent Auckland prelate, Government action should he immediate and drastic.—l am, etc.. March 20. DrstjusTEn.

--In some of the world’s greatest rivers a. battle has been raging for years between man and a flower. The water hyacinth seems a harmless rather attractive plant when one sees it growing in small clumps; but, that, harmless-looking flower can choke a river so effectively that, no ship can make her way over its waters. The plants float on the surface of the water, and their hanging roots interlace so tightly that a hyacinth bed is welded firmly into one solid mass. Millions of pounds have been spent on cutting up and removing the hyacinth barriers: but rutting is if little use since it cannot get rid of all the seeds, and if only a few of these are loft the trouble is soon ns bad a« ever, (kitting was abandoned some time ago in favour of arsenic spraying, but. it was found that, this process contaminated the rivers, ‘‘Gormandising’’ is the subject of a pew hill put. forward in Bavaria, heavy fines being inflicted on those who ‘Vreace a public scandal" by eating bjp much.