But Bishop could do better

It would appear, at least to one ancient Presbyterian, that Bishop Victoria Matthews has failed one of life’s many tests – that of being gracious in defeat.

Whether she won or lost the seven-year religious war in Christchurch, would it not have been better instead of her spiteful final message to her subjects for the Bishop to have thrown off her cardboard hat, pulled out a pair of gardening gloves and invited her congregation to join her in the square on Sunday afternoon to tidy up the site before she departed. W Bruce Whitfield Sumner