FRIENDSHIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 13

FRIENDSHIP

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“World's Great Need ” Says Rotarian Visitor INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL “Rotary begins with acquaintance, and then ripens into friendship. If there is one thing that this world needs to-day it is friendship.” Mr. L. G. Sloan, former president of the London Rotary Club, was the speaker at yesterday’s luncheon of the Auckland club. He was accompanied by Mr. Frank Waterman, a past-presi-dent of the New York Club, with whom he is touring New Zealand. Mr. George W. Hutchison, Auckland president, who occupied the chair, welcomed the visitors. Air. Sloan he described as a typical Englishman and a Rotarian. whoso term of office as London president had been a highly successful one. It was Air. Sloan, incidentally, who welcomed the late Mr. Massey to the London club, when the New Zealand Prime Minister more than exceeded tho 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 tho nations, Mr. Sloan explained, and it was a factor in the interests of peace and goodwill throughout the world. And peace among the nations could only be brought about by individual friendships. Air. Sloan spoke of an address the

London club had been privileged to listen to from the New Zealand 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 undet stand -

ing of the possibilities of the League. It showed us also what a, young nation could do to achieve the comradeship I of the world.” The European nations had realised that they must get to rock-bottom as far as industrial conditions were concerned. “They realised that they | had to work and. believe me. they are ! working. . . . Next year I hope will !be the brightest and best year that England has known since before the j war!” (Applause.) Air. Waterman expressed his great pleasure at meeting Auckland RotarI ians, and invited them to get in touch i with him when they went to New ; York.