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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 7

A meeting of ladies interested in the opening of the new West Christchurch School, which will take place in February, was recently held at the school. Conveners of committees were elected as follows: Mrs A’Court, produce stall; Mrs Calder, afternoon tea; Mrs Dendle, cake stall; Mrs Wilson, fancy stall. The allocation of the other stalls was left to the general committee.

The expression “A touch of the bishop’s foot,” used in referring to food which has been burnt, had its origin in the days when bishops were in the habit of burning heretics. Tyndale says: “If the podech be burned-to, or the meate over rosted we saye the byshope hath put his fote in the potte,” and he explains it thus: “because the bishopes burn who they lust.”. Such food is said therefore to have “a touch of the bishop’s foot,” or to be “bishopped.” The common saying, “He has put his foot in it,” is also traced to the same origin.