ROTARIANS PUZZLED
THAT ROMAN DECLARATION RELIGION RIGIDLY EXCLUDED Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. “We in Wellington are amazed. We find it difficult to understand such a position,” said the president of the Wellington Rotary Club, Mr. D. J. McGowan, to-day, in regard to the cabled announcement that the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and the Rotary movement had widened to a chasm. “We have Roman Catholic members in our club here, the same as have the other Rotary clubs in New Zealand.” Mr. McGowan added that in the movement here the sectarian question had never arisen, and not the slightest trouble had ever been experienced in that respect. Neither religion nor politics is allowed to enter into Rotary, particularly in regard to the selection of subjects for the regular addresses. The message was more inexplicable in view of the statement that the president of the international movement is a Roman Catholic.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 7
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