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Matamata Record, Volume XI, Issue 961, 8 October 1928, Page 5

“ You will want to know my impressions of New Zealand,” said the Rev. Hector N. McLean, of the United Church of Canada, speaking at the Christchurch Presbytery last week. “ Well, I find it a land where ‘ every prospect pleases’ ” . The laughter of the members of the Presbytery was an indication that they knew the conclusion of the quotation. “ You know,” continued the Canadian visitor, “ I fe.il like the Apostle Paul at Athens— ‘ his spirit was sore within him when he saw the city given over to idolatry.’ The situation is baa enough in Canada —the Lord knows it is. My impression honestly (it doesn’t make any difference to me) is that I think New Zealand is given over body and soul to commercialised sport. Now, I believe in .clean and legitimate sport, but when sport becomes an obsession, and an over-ruling passion, God help us, and God help the country, and it’s time to call a halt, and a time to do something. But,” he added, in concluding this part of his remarks, “ I never got into a controversy in my life, only once —with my wife—and that settled me.”—Press.