ROTARY MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 63, 17 March 1925, Page 6

ROTARY MATTERS

THE AMERICAN ORGANISATION

To-day's Rotary Club luncheon was extremely well attended, arid was. the usual, jolly, function. Eotarian E. .W. Hunt, presided, and the main guest of the day was Rotarian H.C Teagle.

Rotarian Marsden was welcomed back from America, and Rotarian C. C. Odlin was farewelled and wished a pleasant trip to England. The/ president p reported . that, there would probably be a credit balance on the entertainment fund from the recent conference.

Rotarian President Nathan, Palmerston North, intimated that his club had changed its lunch day to Thursday with a view to getting Wellington visitors. ■ Several visitors expressed thanks for the magnificent and enthusiastic manner in which Wellington Rotary Club had conducted the recent conference.

The president told the Palmerston North delegate that a representative visit from the Wellington Club would be made to Palmerston North.

The club passed a very enthusiastic vote of thanks tq Secretary H. Amos for his splendid organisation and thoughtfulness at the recent Dominion Conference in-Wellington. Rotarian Amos, in reply, paid a compliment to the work of the committee.

Rotarian-, H. G. Teagle addressed members on his impressions of American Rotary, he having visited the Toronto Rotarian Conference as a New Zealand representative. He said he was impressed by the friendship extended by Rotarians everywhere he had been. He was never a stranger. In San Francisco he was received with the utmost friendliness, shown round California by motor, and entertained. He found that someone in the clubs remembered those visitors who had preceded him. The luncheons were splendid, and the addresses splendid. He was a guest at the Chicago Club, the No. 1 Rotary Club, and was again more than impressed with the, spirit of friendliness. The trouble they took to keep up interest and receive visitors well was remarkable. The speaker described the big conference in Toronto as a wonderful experience, as had also been his whole visit, so that he expressed himself as delighted with the trip and the Rotarian movement which was becoming such a tremendous one, and was to be a bigger one. He envied this year's delegate to the international conference.