SPORT APLENTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 8

SPORT APLENTY

WHAT NEW ZEALAND OFFERS SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE DAY. 1 Special '* ChroniJe ’ Service J AUCKLAND, May 18. j “Auckland is not a wicked, city headed lor destruction religiously and } morally. It coni pa res very favourably’ with cities of similar size in the Old C ountry.” humming up his six and a bait years ’experience as a minister in the city, the Rev. J. Lamb Harvy, of s t. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, made this statement to-day. Mr Harvey is leaving soon for Scotland- “I will go home to boom New t Zealand as a sportsman’s paradise,” declared Mr Harvey. “No matter what ' sport you follow, New eZaland is the ' place for it. My own interest has be?n bowls, ami there are more bowlers to I the square yard here than in any other j country in the world. . ‘‘Morally there are some crying evils here, as there a~e 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 needI ed to deal wPh these things, and for that you want a vitally religious and i living church. My belief is that the < hiirch is going to ertunr for more and mon* in the life of New Zealand.”