ROTARY DINNER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 574, 4 July 1933, Page 4

ROTARY DINNER

ANNUAL_FpNcy NEWLY ELECTED STRffiE|0°S®«1 HOPE IN TBE FUTURE j | The sixth annual dinnei- ^ „ 1 I torua Rotary Cluh wNct f | at Lake House Hotel T°?J j night was one of the mosf j functions yet held hy the Jg*& | was a good attendance 0f 2^ !Ha;ZiaStr°neM*«| | The toast "Rotary xntp • . I was proposed by President J Sl and responded to by DisbUc ^1 H. Valder, of Hai.n „ "S/l ;vD/-thf duiyteta;4t£«j mg President, Rotarian j in office He eongratulat^ fte°| president on his elevation 1M pressed the opinion that jSI guide the destmies of the £11 fuHy r and Iwefi. !n thankb^J for the honour conferrefl M the new president hriefiy rl'S the position of affairs for B21 general and struck an optimistr!S "To-night,"' he saidf'gfel other milestone m the history cil cluh, and is the commeneemL ■ new year. The year that 1,^1 drawn to its close, has indeedJi tiying one hoth in our industrilrj social life. All those engaged hl commercial and industrial life\B been' confronted ivith econonf c M culties of a particularly -charaoter, especially manifeslS large additions to the ranks "oM unemployed with' all that a Iai$l employed class imposes upon bofl ial order. ■ National Determination I "We have experienced and arefl experiencing, a period when all J of ' the community have sufiereM still suffer from this intense* pression, and it seems to me are at a time when all classes yfl ever their differeqces of party tfl or station, should ' have in least, their determination to oveiijfl the national difficulties and proh^H "When His Excellency, the 9 nox, Lord Bledisbe addressed S club," continued Rotarian McDefl "he said he detected a faint gleufl light in the darkness of the sion. Only a seer could have ed it at th'at time; in the months^B have elapsed the gleani has fied and to-day there is a more!^B ful outlook and most believe at^B that the worst is over. "This is however no time forfl whiner or igrumbler or the typejH gives in. It is the time for when all should befound'goingsi^B for the top." Necessary Qualities ;"The outstanding qualities are necessary at this time are^H age, toleration, patience, unse^H ness in all its forms, and, ahov^H loyalty to the principle of sen^H service, to whatever course lieve to be in the best interests o^H civic, national and international^H "Rotary and Rotarians shonld^H this definite combative attitad^H ward the difficulties of the Neither as men nor as nation^H we live for ourselves alone. with the qualities of good citize^H whether it be in the civic, natioi^H international sphere, each' one must regard these problems culties as much more our owa^H we hitherto have considered be and must approach them^H breadth of vision and honesty pose, determined in the spirit vice to work our way through ter times and higher things. The following officers invested: — -Vice-president, Eotar^^H A. Gardner; secretary, SotariaMj Sheaf ; treasurer, Rotarian M. directors, Rotarian Bertrafflj ander and H. C. Krogh. . Other toasts h'onoured evening were, "Kindred posed by Past President 0. man, replied to hy President Hamilton Cluh, "The V* H tarian Earle Vaile, respondel* His Worship the Mayor^JMr-^* son), "The Entertainers Redhead -^Bi The musical programme hut well chosen. Rotarian iJ. ton was heard to adva.ni aDe^^V violin solos and also e community song. Mr- ^ a pleasing rendering of ^ . lads, Mr. Henley being panist, while Rotarian Etributed a humorous recig'i^p