ROTARY MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 8

ROTARY MOVEMENT.

AUCKLAND CLUB'S BIRTHDAY. INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS.

The , fact that the Auckland Rotary Club had attained its tenth' birthday was mentioned at the club's lunclico-i meeting to-day in Milne and ChoyeeV reception hall by the president, Rotaritui C. J. Tunks, and at his invitation Si; George Fowlds, one of the founders aw, first New Zealand Rotary Commissioner spoke briefly on the significance of th occasion. . . . •. ',

Ten years had passed ■ vei'y quick! said Sir George,. but he was confide that in thf? period mentioned the tli had fully justified itself by its infiura for good to the members themselves a; to the city.

There was the usual full attendan and visitors included: TCessrs. J:

Thompson-(WinnipesO, Chas. H. Burp (New Plymouth), H."~J. Hardcastle (S----ney), F. Dyer and G. W. Guthrie (W lingtbn),' H. J. Giithrie (Dunedin) a M. H. Henry' (Belfast, Ireland).

A nomination' committee for the seK tion of nominations as office bearers i next year was appointed.

As Sir George Fowlds had lost 1 classification as a member, due to I retirement , from business, the preside moved that he be appointed a past s. vices' member, and this was agici to unanimously. v

This speaker of the day was DisLi' Governor Harry Guthrie, of Duned. who is about to make a trip to View to represent New Zealand at the anni: international Rotary conference. \ e spoke on the sixth object of Kotuf namely, the promotion of internatioiv understanding, goodwill and peace. J had to be remembered, he said, tin. Rotary was a comparatively new movement, whereas the obstacles to intei national peace were of long standing, j that the solution was by no means eas; Preparation for war was a chief cause ( war, for it bred suspicion and distnis, and disarmament, therefore, became at all-important object. The, stronger the nation the more icould afford to make an example in dis armament.- - Such a nation, taking jfcK." first steps, could seek co-operation with others and. thus the movement would gradually develop. It must, however, be : a united effort based upon the growth of peaceful opinions amongst the variounations. He quoted a British statesman's view that disarmament would not be attained by the scrapping of shipbut by the disarmament of the arsenal' of hatred and jealousy that had beor erected in the minds of the peoples othe world.-

It was the duty of Rotarians to du their utmost individually and collectively to promote a spirit of friendship am K goodwill in other countries. So long a there was economic injustice, or raei" ; njustice in the world there was dang?'-' of discord and strife.