SERVICE FIRST

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 12

SERVICE FIRST

THE HEAD OF ROTARY

VISIT TO CHRISTCHURCH

(Bj- Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHKISTCHimCH, Oth May

Mr. Sydney W. Pascall, president of the Rotary International, was welcomed by members of the Christchurch Rotary Club at luncheon to-day. Mr. A. M. Burns, president of the Christchurch Club, was in the chair.

The Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., in welcoming Mr. Pascall, said ho had always received the greatest possible courtesy and assistance from Rotary, and this, added to the magnificent work of the organisation, showed him that the high ideals were being upheld. To millions of people in the world Rotary meant a live, beneficent, and truly humanitarian body. If in other parts of the world similar work was being done, it must be a very great factor for international peace.

Mr. Pascall said the atmosphere in the Christchurch Rotary Club was the true atmosphere, proving that members were not masquerading under a name. In the afternoon Mr. Pascall planted a tree of friendship, his twenty-fifth, in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. To-night he was the guest at a reception attended by Botarians and their ladies at the' United Service Hotel. He condemned bribery in trade and secret commissions. He hoped that the Ottawa Conference would establish a better economic condition in the British Empire, followed by an improvement in the whole world. "Trade is not war, and we err- when we use warlike terms in trade. Selfishness means class hatred and international strife. No great nation can afford to be selfish. Let international policy be one of service on a basis which is ethically right. In urging that in the world we will be justifying our motto of service before self."