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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 13

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friendship “World’s Great Need ” Says Rotarian Visitor international goodwill “Rotary begins with acquaintance, and then npens into friendship lf there is one thing that J h is world needs to-day it is friendship." Mr L. G. Sloan, former president of the London Rotary Club, was the netker at to-day’s luncheon of the Auckland club. He was accompanied ; , ji r Frank Waterman, a past-presi-dent of the New York Club, with h om he is tourmK New Zealand. Mr George W. Hutchison, Auckland president, who occupied the chair, welcomed the visitors. Mr. Sloan he described as a typical Englishman and a Rotarian, whose term of office as London president had hcen a highly successful one. It was Mr. Sloan, incidentally, who welcomed the late Mr. Massey to the linden club, when the New Zealand Prime Minister more than exceeded the hour allotted to him in describing to London Rotarians the attractions of the Dominion. Rotary had done much in Europe to create a- better understanding among the nations, Mr. Sloan explained, and it tvas a factor in tile interests of peace and goodwill throughout the world. And peace among the nations could only be brought about by individual friendships. Mr. Sloan spoke of an address the

London club had been privileged to listen to from the New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, “just back from the Assembly of the League of Nations and full of enthusiasm and hope.” “We certainly appreciated that address. It filled us, too, with a new hope, and gave us a new understand-

ing of the possibilities of the League. It showed us also what a young nation could do to achieve the comradeship of the world.” The European nations had realised that they must get to rock-bottom as far as industrial conditions were •oncerned. “They realised that they had to work and, believe me, they are working. . . . Next year I hope will lie the brightest and best year that England has known since before the war:’’ CApplau.se.) Mr. Waterman expressed his great pleasure at meeting Auckland Rotarians, and invited them to get in touch with him when they went to New York.