A VISITING PRIEST

Matamata Record, Volume XVII, Issue 1546, 26 July 1934, Page 5

A VISITING PRIEST

AUSTRALIAN IN MATAMATA " T Father Forrest, the Catholic missioner who is at present in Matamata, is, like the big majority of Australians, very keenly interested in cricket. He admits to staying up well into the small hours of the morning “ listening-in ” to the cricket broadcasts, and like most other enthusiasts was very disappointed with the erratic behaviour of Jupiter Pleuvis during the fourth ie3t match. Father Forrest considers if four days are allotted for play this should .surely refer to. actual time taken up by play, and that time lost by rain should be made up. He was delighted to notice that New Zealanders were taking such a keen interest in the test games, as he considers that a love for clean sport' was very wholesome for both mind and body. He recommended all young people to enter whole-heart-edly into some branch of athletics. Although Father Forrest is most entertaining in his conversational account of his recent experiences in Ireland, Europe and America, he professes little knowledge of economics and prefers that his views on such matters be not published in interviews which must necessarily be brief owing to exigencies of spa?e. He holds everyone has a perfect ; right to their own convictions, and : accordingly the most he would say when questioned on Ireland was that l in his opinion the Irish people had a [ perfect right to elect whom they , chose, whether it was' Cosgrave, de > Valera, O’Duffy, or anyone else.