ROTARIANS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 12

ROTARIANS ABROAD.

PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP. MAKING NEW ZEALAND KNOWN. The Auckland Rotarians who recently attended the Industrial Convention at St. Louis have since been entertained by various Rotarian Clubs in the United States and Canada. Rotarian Charles Rhodes, writing from Montreal, states: "The impression left on my mind re Rotary in the United Stateß is a distinct desire to cultivate international friendship, with foresight that Rotary may accomplish in the world, by mutual understanding, what a League of Nations has failed to do." Rotarian W. B. Leyland, who with Mrs. Leyland, travelled from St. Louis to Southern California spoke at a Rotary Club gathering at Pasadena, near Los Angeles, and ia reported in I the "Pasadena News" as stating that "If you chance to be in Auckland. New Zealand, next Fourth of July, or any Fourth of July, you'll find the Star's and Stripe« flying from prominent New Zealand homes and buildings, and find Boston pork and beans as the featured I menu that day at the Pacific Club," of I which he is "president. Mr. Leyland added that the observance of the American holiday was a reflection of the genuine regard in which the L'.S.A. is held in ■ bis section of the Antipodes. He said a similar regard was held for Canada, lie is a firm believpr in the principles of Rotary both in helping individuals to put "service above self" and —what he regarded as even more important—in embodying this principle in international relations. Rotary, he said, in his capital talk before the local club, increased an individual's "capacity for happiness"' and, inferentinlly, ivould do as much for nations and their peoples. Mr. Leyland paid an eloquent tribute of friendship, on behalf of his country, to the late President Harding. All New Zealand mourned his death, with flags at half-mast. "Business conditions in New Zealand arc good," Mr. Leyland told the "Star -, news re|#rter. "Domestic trado is brisk and there is active exporting of New Zealand's principal products, which are wool, butter, frozen meats, tallow, hides, flax."