AUCKLAND NOT WICKED CITY

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 13

AUCKLAND NOT WICKED CITY

EXPERIENCES OF MINISTER. (By Wire—Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. "Auckland is not a wicked city headed for destruction religiously and morally; it. compares very favourably with cities of similar size in the Old Country.” That is the summing up of his six and a-half years’ experience as a minister in the city. The Rev. J. Lamb Harvey, of fit. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, made this statement to-day. Mr. Harvey is leaving soon for Scotland. “I will go home to boom New Zealand as a sportsman’s paradise,” declared Mr. Harvey. “No matter what sport you follow, New Zealand is the place for it. My own Interest has been bowls, and there are more bowlers to the square yard here than in any country in the world.

“Morally there are some crying evils he.re as there are elsewhere,” he said. "The problem is how are you going to prevent or cure gambling, intemperance, illegitimacy and the divorce evil? A powerful public conscience is needed to deal with these things, and for that you want a vitally religious and living Church. My belief is that the Church is going to count for more and more 'in the life of New Zealand.”