DOMINION'S MORALS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 8

DOMINION'S MORALS

ARCHBISHOP'S ATTACK WARNING TO THE, PEOPLE (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") . AUCKLAND, .This Day.. "My object was noj to.decry the state of the country. AH I did was to draw attention to certain facts, to warn people against self-complacency, and to urge them to send.-to Parliament land into public life generally \ persons who .were'worthy and who took' a real interest in. social and ■ moral questions," said Arehbishp, Averill. when" he, was invited to comment ■ on. the criticism which remarks of . his last week had drawn from- Dr. T. G. Gray, In'-. spo'ctor-General. of Mental Hospitals. It is quite true, said, the Arch-' bishop, that the .figures on which he had based his remarks- came from. a pamphlet by Dr. ■ Moore, of Dunedin. The pamphlet itself • stated that they had been taken from official sources, and it was for this reason that he had relied upon them. Even if those relating to lunacy and suicide were incorrect, no attack had been made upon those rolating to the prison-population, divorce, and illegitimacy. Comparisons with-other countries apart, he said he folt sure that no one who had read the reports of, tho official inquiries into venereal disease and.the .treatment of degenerates and, mental defectives in recent years could -honestly say that all was well. . . . , "I think the public know mo well •onough to belie.ye that I would not try to blacken the good name of New Zealand," DA Avorill continued. "We areall proud, of our country, but our prido in it should not deter us from looking on tho darker side of New Zealand life., Rather it should encourage us to do all we can to make New Zealand in reality what.many geople like.to call it—God'? .own.country." ,"' .' V, '" ' ;