Visit of Rotarian Fergus Cumming from New Zealand

Today we welcomed  Fergus Cumming who is exchanging houses, clothing and wine cellars with Ralph Montesanto. Fergus is a past District Governor and gave us a potted "classification" talk describing his ancestors, his youth and how he came to be a land surveyor, civil engineer and town planner. He told us of his recent trip to Newfoundland and how, knowing the National Anthems of all the Commonwealth Countries, he fits in at the Rotary meeting on his travels. We missed his wife Barbara (did he exchange his wife too??) with whom he spent many years working in Fiji - a country administered from New Zealand prior to its independence.

Fergus finished by doing a quick comparison between Ontario and New Zealand - in terms of sheep, people and land area - New Zealand only scores in the sheep department. He then showed a short movie of the some of the Rotary activities in Rotarua and pictures of the beautifully restored Rotarua Museum - a Rotary project. This is pictured below.