VISITOR FROM DUBLIN

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 3

VISITOR FROM DUBLIN

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND. A founder and past-president of the Dublin Rotary Club, Mr. R. H. White, accompanied by Mrs. White, arrived in Auckland by the Monowai on Monday on a fortnight’s tour of New Zealand. To-day they will leave Auckland on a tour embracing the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and the Wanganui River, and will sail from Wellington on their return to Ireland. Mr. White, who has retired from the Dublin printing establishment of R. T. White, in which he represented the third generation of the family, said the Dublin Rotary Club was established in 1911, being the first Rotary Club to be founded in Europe. A few years ago when on tour he visited all the Rotary Clubs in South Africa. He had travelled a great deal. He was a member of the committee in London of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, and had . visited the society’s mission stations in India, Burma, Ceylon and West Africa. At the time of the outbreak of the RussoJapanese War he was visiting Russia. . For four years he was a member of the Dublin Corporation, of which the exPresident of the Irish Free State,. Mr. W. T. Qosgravft, waa then a member.