JAPANESE SCOUTS AND ROTARY
Exchange Of Gifts
In Auckland
(New Zeaiana Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 14. Two world-wide organisations, Rotary and the Boy Scout Movement, joined today in an exchange of gifts between scouts of Japan and the Auckland Rotary Club. Mr Hedesaburo Kurushima, chairman of the Japanese Boy Scouts’ Organisation and a member of the Tokyo Rotary Club, presented the Auckland club with a decorated bat and ball, used in a centuries-old game similar to badminton.
The bat is made of paulownia wood with an inset Japanese design and attached to the ball are brilliantly-coloured feathers. On the bat there is also a fabric Japanese figure. Mr Kurushima was a delegate to the Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree and present with him today were three other delegates. Katsuo Baba, Kenjiro Narato and Matsuo Suzuki.
Mr H. T. Thomas, a past district governor of Rotary, gave Mr Kurushima and Matsuo Suzuki a Maori mere each. The visit to the jamboree by Baba and Narato was sponsored by the Auckland and Tokyo Rotary Clubs and that of Suzuki by the Osaka Rotary Club.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 10
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