Rotary Domain Opened

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30289, 15 November 1963, Page 6

Rotary Domain Opened

“You have created something, which is the ideal of Rotary, to mark the 21st year of your existence,” said Brigadier J. T. Burrows, the South Island governor of Rotary International opening the new Rotary domain in Power road, Karoro, yesterday afternoon. The club president (Mr A. L. Sutherland) said that the club had chosen two projects to mark its coming of age. One was the intellectuallyhandicapped children’s appeal just completed with the help of Jaycees and Lions and the second was the domain project. Rotary had already established playing parks at Cobden and Blaketown as well as a paddling pool in Dixon park, he said. Mr Sutherland said that the iron archway set on concrete piles over the entrance of the domain, surmounted by two lights, had been given by two

Rotarians, Messrs R. W. Cook and W. A. Harris- The plaque which will later be set at the entrance, had been given by another member, Mr J. L. Patterson. Mr Sutherland said that the club had appreciated the help it had received from the Grey County Council, in which it would be vested. County council forces had supplied cement and gravel for the concrete work involved. The idea now was to form a committee of local residents to help maintain the park. Two garden plots were to be planted and maintained by a local nurseryman. Mr A. Cohen, said Mr Sutherland, who added that nearer the club’s anniversary, which falls early next month, it was hoped a garden party could be arranged at the domain, at which the completed project would be handed over to the county council. The chairman of the Grey County Council (Mr D. R. Gibbens) assured the Rotarians that the council would do its part in maintaining the domain.