AUCKLAND ROTARY CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 10

AUCKLAND ROTARY CLUB.

.TO-DAY'S MEETING. TWO ADDRESSES. There was again a full attendance at the weekly lunch meeting of the Auckland Rotary Club held in the Lewis Eady concert hall, the president, Mr. George W. Hutchison, occupying the chair. Among the visitors were: Rev. Henry W. Whyte (India), and Messrs. H. R. French (Hastings) and Albert E. Russell (Wellington). The chairman stated that the contract for the Hunua hut was £925. The club had undertaken to raise £800, so he trusted members would continue their efforts and make up the balance. The Rev. Whyte, Indian missionary, gave a brief address upon the position of India in relation to the rest of the Empire. He claimed that this should be considered from the point of view of what the Empire owed to India, rather than what India owed the Empire. He summarised the effects of the contacts of civilisation with the primitive life of India and pointed out how the caste problems had interfered with modern movements intended for flie benefit of the general community. India was linguistically and racially as much divided as the various States of Europe and it was only bv the presence and influence of Britain that India preserved even the semblance of nationhood. Religious movements, too, were nowadays vitally affecting the people. The Empire owed to India a completion of the great task to which she had set herself and with sympathetic understanding must help the Indians to attain their national ideals. An address was also delivered by RotaTian H. T, Thomas on the question of instalment selling.