Rotary's Major Work Was Parcels For Britain

Chronicle (Levin), 2 June 1948, Page 4

Rotary's Major Work Was Parcels For Britain

- The club's major work for the year had been the despatch of food parcels to Qreat Britaiil and the sum of £148 15s 6a had been expended on fopd supplies, said" the president, Mr. D. P." Todd, in the course of his review of the Levin Rotary Club's year at the annual' meeting of- members on Monday night. Valuable contacts had been1 made- as a result of this elfort, and' the messages of thanks reeeived: were amplg reward* for the work ipvolved. Steps were now in train for the collectipn of edibie fats to send to Britain. - - '/ 1 The committee set up by the club i had completed the work of promoting a branch of the Unitecf NgtiQns Association in -Levin, continued ]\4r. Todd, and' a virile branch had npw been establishgd. The club had been served with an excellent rarige of speakers during the year. Help had been continued to' Heritage, Institute for the Blind and Crippied Children Society, while thp annual picnic for the inmates of the Levin Farm had ag'ain been promoted. The club's present membership Iwas 28, said Mr. Todd. During the iyear two members had been lost, Messrs. W. Bodell and L. A. Whitham, bpth having glven up residence .in Levin. Three new i members had been welcomed. The flnanciql statement presented hy the. secretary-treasurer, Mr. L. A. Humphrey, showed a satisfactory pbgitiOn. The foliowing offlcers were elecred for the year cpmmencing on September 1 next: — -President: Dr. S. J. Thompson; vice-president: i Rev. H. S. Kings; directors: fyfesgrs. 'b. P. Todd, J. W. J. Jacpb, W. S. . Long. and N. A. Byrne; secretarytreasurer : Mr. L. A. Humphrey. ' The dispussion of dpmestic matters occupied some time and the meeting concluded with suppsr and 'an hour of social converse.