ROTARY- MOVEMENT,

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19014, 3 August 1933, Page 9

ROTARY- MOVEMENT,

THREE MORE NATIONS JOIN. WORLD CONVENTION. There were 8438 members of Rotary clubs and members of their families representing 57 countries, at the annual Rotary convention held In Boston in June. It was reported that the net Inorease In the number of clubs for the year was 75, compared with 54 in the previous year. Among the new dubs were those in Riga (Latvia), Tangier (Morocco), Sofia (Bulgaria), Increasing "by three the list of countries in which the Rotary movement Is established. *

The election of ofllcers resulted as follows: —President, John Nelson, Montreal, Canada; vice-presidents, Ed. R. Johnson, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A.; Maurice Duporrey, Paris, France; Herbert Schofield, Loughborough, England: directors, John J. Allen, Ottawa, Canada; Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque, New’ Mexico, IJ.S.A.; Ernest W. Dnnbar, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Victor M. Echevarria, Barranquilla, Colombia; Otto Fischer, Stuttgart, Germany; Fong Foo See, Shanghai, China; George C. Hager, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.; Frederick Ernest James, Madras, India; Will R. Manier, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.; Arthur B. Mnyhew, Uvalde, Texas, U.S.A.