ROTARY MOVEMENT.
LINKING UP WVTiI ENGLAND W ELLINGTON. Now 0. A proposal was made by Ait A. i A Roberts, past president of the Wc-lliug- T ton Rotary-Club., at 'to-day'- luncheon 1 that the movement in New Zealand should ’become linked up with that in England. don't propose that we should break away irom the international organisation." Mr Roberts said, “but if there is such a body in existence as an association of British Rotary ('lyjjli', 1 think we should he allowed the privilege ot at least becoming honorary members." lie would see what he could do to that end while he was in England as New Zealand Commissioner at the International Exhibition. “We want to show pcoole m England, ’’ he declared, “that in racial ties we are just as close as the Isle of W ight. The president of the club (Mr O. C. Odlin) said he hoped to see Mr Roberts leave New Zealand as official representative of Rotary, so that he could represent the Dominion at the British Convention to he held next year and attend the various club functions as an official messenger front this country. He did not se why the Rotary movement in New Zealand should not assist the Old Country in the big question of emigration.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1923, Page 2
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213ROTARY MOVEMENT. Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1923, Page 2
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