ROTARY CONFERENCE
ABANDONMENT APPROVED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, 10th February. Mr: H. J. Guthrie, Eotary Governor of the 53rd district (New Zealand), states that the annual conference fixed for'Dunediri on 18th, 19th, and 20th February has been abandoned on a general vote of the clubs in the district, this action being taken in sympathy with'the sufferers in the Hawkcs Bay disaster. Mr. Guthrie cabled to Chicago for authority to take this step if necessary. The Rotary • bylaws stipulate that a conference must be hold, and it was imperative before abandonment of the meeting could be decided upon to obtain authority from headquarters in Chicago. Tho international president replied approving of tho cancellation of tho conference, and after conveying his sympathies to the people of New Zealand in the earthquake visitation, expressed a hope that every reasonable effort would bo made to hold a meet-; inj*
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 10
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145ROTARY CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 10
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