STATUE OF ATHLETE
“DISGUSTING SIGHT” METHODIST’S OPINION (Per Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. The Eov. \Y. ,1, Elliott, of Auckland, an ex-president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, who is now visiting Carterton, on having his attention drawn to the discussion by the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations concerning the mule statue of an athlete at the entrance to tlio Auckland Domain, said : “I think the statue is a disgusting sight, and a degenerate travesty upon Grecian athletic art.
“It is pitiable to see the attitude of inoffensive suavity assumed towards it by the Council of Christian Congregations. Surely the church is in a tepid mood and is drawing the silken cord of a false peace over every great conviction and duty.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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