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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19157, 14 November 1927, Page 8

"Sydney is perhaps not quite the city of sin that some visitors make it out to be," said Dr. R. Scott West, Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, when interviewed at Auckland. "Since the war a wave of immorality has been sweeping over the world, and I do not think there is a city of any size that has not been affected by it." Even then. I hardly think we are so bad to-day as they were in the seventeenth century. The world is progressing, and, ethically and religiously, there has been a definite improvement. Of course, there is a lot of gambling in Sydney. But 1 think you have the evil here. It is world-wide, a legacy from the turmoil and excitement of war." Dr. West said he thought Australia would! feel the need for economy in the near future. There was "no doubt that Sydney would, and Mr Bavin was already at work cutting the costs of government. It had been found that many Government Departments had been hopelessly over-staffed during the Lang regime, and the new Premier had already started on a policy of reduction. Australia was a country of great natural resources, its people were naturally optimists, ancll he was confident it had a great future.