ROTARY CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, 2 March 1934, Page 5

ROTARY CONFERENCE.

NEW PLYMOUTH GATHERING CONCLUDED. UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 1. The New Zealand Rotary Conference concluded to-day with final resolutions on tho unemployment problem, aid to crippled children ahd the election of Mr. J. M. A. Hott, Wellington, as govvernor nominee of the fifty-third district. A garden party was held at the residence of the District Governor, Mr. T. C. List.

Regarding unemployment, a resolution was passed that the committee to deal with uneisijflbyment, set up at the district governors’ assembly in August last, continue its work with power to co-opt additional members and deal with the proposals made at this conference. It was felt, said Mr. List, that out of the discussion and reports much information and instruction had been gained. It was in order that that committee might avail itself of tho services of those who. could assist tho committee in solving the grave problem that power to co-opt additional members had been given. Following a discussion of means of assisting crippled children, it was decided that the Rotary cluibs of New Zealand should make the mental and psychological condition of the crippled children of tho Dominion a major activity, t|.at steps be taken to form a New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society on the lines of the report, and that meantime ever; Rotary club endeavour to form a branch of the society in its community and to interest all sections of the community in the work.—(P.A.)i