Rotary Conference
[Special to "Northern Advocate”} NAPIER, This Day.
Between three and four hundred delegates from all parts of New Zealand are in Napier for the annual conference of the Rotary movement.
Delegates arrived yesterday and, following an informal “get together” function last evening, a start was made today with the business proper of the conference.
There is a full programme, extending over four days, ahead of the conference. :
Today’s chief engagements were the opening of the conference, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. W. E. Barnard, an address by the District Governor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison (Auckland), an address by Mr. Angus Mitchell, of Melbourne, the representative at the conference of Rotary International, group meetings and discussions, and an address by Mr. W. T. Foster, headmaster of the Napier Boys’ High School on “The urgent importance of international amity.”
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1939, Page 8
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