THE MAYORAL CHURCH SERVICE
TO THE EDITOR.
Sjb,—l notice that the first official act of the newly-elected Mayor—in pursuance, it is claimed, of an old English custom —is to direct that a special church
service shall follow his installation on Wednesday. Let us hope that the new . cound! will clip the Mayor-elect's wings at once. If it does not do so there is no telling where he will f°« »• ££ old English custom compelled the people to go to church, heavy fines and imprison. ment being inflicted if the,r did not wish t« Ao bo. or would not do so. mat hurch was.°of course, the English Church which was then an offshoot of the Pontifical Church of Rome. Mr Cos's portrait does remind me of that of Pope Pius Tnnncpnt X.—l am, etc., innocent a. DIsAPPO raTED.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21948, 9 May 1933, Page 10
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