ROTARY CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 3

ROTARY CONFERENCE

REGIONAL MEETING AT WELLINGTON NEXT YEAR TIMARU PROVIDES DISTRICT GOVERNOR (Prni United Press Association.} AUCKLAND, February 28. An announcement that the sixth Regional Conference of the Rotary Internationa] would be held at Wellington in February, 1937, was made to-day by Mr H. J. Guthrie, a director of the Rotary International, when addressing delegates to the. New Zealand Rotary District Conference. Mr Guthrie said that his application to the Board of Directors of the Rotary International to have the Pan-Pacific Conference held in New Zealand had been successful. Regional conferences had been started in the Pacific and had always been of benefit to Rotary. Auckland had been selected originally as the venue of the conference, but a change to Wellington had been decided upon for geographical reasons. The Rotary International would have to approve of the change from Auckland to Wellington. Referring to his recent visit to Chicago to attend a meeting of the hoard of directors, Mr Guthrie said that Rotary clubs were now established in 79 countries. The Rotary International was now divided into 88 districts and there were 165,492 members at the end of ,last December. Mr W. Thomas, ex-headmaster of the Timaru Boys’ High School and the first president of the Timaru Rotary Club, was formally nominated for the position of District Governor of Rotary in New Zealand for the coming year at the conclusion of the conference. He will he installed as governor at the World Convention of the Rotary International at Atlantic City, United States, in June.