PRAISE FOR ROTARY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 8

PRAISE FOR ROTARY

THE BISHOP OF LONDON

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day. "As I go round the world I always seem to turn up at the right time," said the Bishop of London at the New Zealand Eotary Conference luncheon yesterday. "I 1 reached Ottawa for the centenary celebrations, and they stated that I had come all the way specially to be present. Perhaps you will say, the same.

"I was a Eotarian before they were ever started," continued the Bishop. "Forty-two years ago I went down to Bethnal Greenjin a hansom cab to find the Oxford House. It was. the first hansom that had ever been se'en there. I asked the beery cabman where the 'Oxford House was. He replied, 'Is it the madhouse you mean?'* Well, I lived there for nine years in the middle of East London with ~at first nine and later thirty young men, all from the university, and unpaid. We did settlement work, helped the poor, gave out' free lunches, organised twopenny dramatics, and held mission services, if that isn't Eotary work, what is? I am heart and soul with you people." Dr. Ingram went on to name three things that the Botarians of the world ought to be able to do. The first, he said, was to avoid misunderstandings among the nations of the Empire. The second task was to help with the very difficult migration question. To find a solution was not beyond the wit of man. He wanted Eotarians to see jthat new arrivals got jobs and did not take those of other people. Thirdly, Eotarians should do all they could to overcome apathy and hostility toward the League of Nations. The league was something of paramount importance in the preservation of world" peace. In five years it had stopped five wars, had repatriated a mililon people, had restored, three nations to solvency, had set standards of child welfare, had dona much to help native people's in mandated teritories, and has rescued thousands of people from the Turks. That wat a splendid recora.