PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1927, Page 4

PUBLIC OPINION.

THE ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK. “I hope there will no serious opposition in the Convocations to the passing of the new book. It would surely be a humiliating confession to make, that the Church of England, after many years of hard work and earnest consideration, cannot agree on a revision of its Book of Common Prayer. Too lunch attention has been given controversial points. The vast majority of the changes are noil-controversial, and most of these are manifest improvements. No changes are compulsory; any parish (and there will he very many) which prefers the old book can continue to use it.”—Dean Ingle, in the Church of England Newspaper.”

THE BIRDS. ' It is not necessary to lie a AVliito of So]borne or a St. Francis of Assisi to fiml a deep and inexhaustible delight in the fainilar presense of birds and to he sensible of the animation and significance which they give to the rural English scene. It would be a calamity if a feature so characteristic were allowed to disappear. \ei. what with the gun and the collector, and the detrimental schoolboy their is a real danger of 1 ninny species of wild bird becoming extinct. The appetite lor plovers eggs has led to the systematic raiding of the plover’s, nest and in a generation or so no English poet will Ik; able to observe wanton lapwing gets himself unless the hands of the despoiler he stayed.’’—-“Morning Post, 1 '