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issue No 446

November 2003

this month's cover

More than 14,500 packs of Christmas cards bearing the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund logo are sold to Rotary clubs in Australia each year. Asked why he undertook this huge logistical task annually District 9810 Past Governor Fred answers simply “For the love of the Health Fund’’. If every Rotarian in Australia bought one pack of cards the project would raise more than $A200,000 a year. See cover report, page 2. .

in this Issue

GSE links for indigenous peoplever the top with polio eradication fund raising	11
Rotarian experts serve to STOP polio - Five Dock dancers boost Polio Eradication Campaign - WHO leader at immunisations	14
Nigerian and Johannesburg health talks wide-ranging	15
Meeting the challenge of The Rotary Foundation	16
Happy, hungry Africa needs a friend in Rotary	18
New Zealanders pathfinders in GSE history Knock on a diplomat’s door, you may find a good Rotarian	20
Rotary’s practical response in Gippsland bushfires	22
Volunteers’ bonus of hearing and seeing sheep industry history	24
Big bottle turns into big bucks for Prahran	25
Rotary in remote Australia . . . from Bourke to Broome	26
Attending an R.I. Convention can make you a real Rotarian	34
Benefactor seeks polio eradication first-hand	35
A blessed man after days of sweat and fear	36
Terry Hills turns new page for young readers	37
Foodbank knows the value of a good breakfast	38
Victorian clubs support liver cell transplantation	40
Romac . . . they heard it on the grapevine	57

Regular columns

Inner Wheel 2; President's Message 3; Bob Aitken's 'from where I sit' 4; News Bulletin, 4; John Thorne Jottings 7; Mailbox 8; Harley Tarrant's column 8; In Brief 10; Gardening 38: What's On 41; People 43; Rotarnet 45; Rotary World 46: Called to Higher Service 52: Paul Harris Fellows 53: Noticeboard 53: Directory 54 Smiles 56:

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