ROTARY CONFERENCE
OPENED AT PALMERSTON NORTH ADDRESS BY SIR 11. BATTERBEE. BIG GATHERING OF DELEGATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH. This Day. •Attended by over two hundred delegates from alt parts of the Dominion and one from Fiji, the eighteenth District Conference of Now Zealand Rotary clubs opened at, Massey College today and is continuing till Friday. Sir Harry Batterbee. High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, officially opened the gathering, drawing a parallel of Rotary’s aims and those of the Allies as against Nazi ideology, which sought to crush, friendships, and good relationships, for which Rotary stood. He also said his mission as a commissioner was most similar to the aims of Rotary. The District Governor. Mr Ewen, of Wellington, is presiding. The official representative of Rotary International is Sir Robert Garran, of Canberra.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 6
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134ROTARY CONFERENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 6
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