Adults “Fed Up" With Protests

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 14

Adults “Fed Up" With Protests

Adults in the United States were “fed up” with disturbances and violence by young people and wanted firm action, the president of Rotary International (Mr J. F. Conway, of New York) said in Christchurch on Saturday.

Many believed law, order and discipline must prevail, and that “someone must stop this nonsense,” Mr Conway said. Many Americans were now reaching the conclusion that a lack of home discipline was the basic cause of much of the trouble with young people, and toughening of home and school discipline in the future might be the result of this. Rotary dubs throughout the world were flourishing, and he felt New Zealand cpuld consider clubs similar to the Rotaract clubs in the United States, which were designed for young men and Women between the ages Of 18 and 25. Many of these young people wanted to do something in the community. Mr and Mrs Conway are visiting Rotary dubs in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji on their present tour, and in the next year will also visit clubs in South America and Britain. Mr Conway said the visit was so he could see what the various clubs were doing, and also to give a personal impact to the theme of “review and renew,” in which clubs were asked to see if

what they were doing was up to date.

On Saturday evening Mr and Mrs Conway attended a reception in their honour held by Christchurch Rotary clubs. They were welcomed to Christchurch by the Deputy Mayor (Cr H. P. Smith) and introduced by the district governor of Rotary (Mr S. Ombler). Items were presented by the pipers of St Andrew’s College, the Papanui High School Folk Music Group, Awataha Maori Club, and Miss K. L. Elliot Yesterday Mr and Mrs Conway flew to Mount Cook.