THE NATIONAL ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS'.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2564, 26 June 1878, Page 3

THE NATIONAL ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS'.

(To the Editor) Sir,—ln reference to S. G. Lee's reply to my letter, it is meaning less, unmanly, and anything but straightforward. The public will not treat the truth as "contemptible ;" and well might the National Order that Rafton and his small following have brought into dispute here in the eyes of kindred society, say, save it from its friends. Public confidence is saaken, and the people believe that everything that Rafton has done— even the opening of our Lodge—is a farce, and well might they think so, when the accredited agent of the Executive N.1.0.F. should disregard the laws of the Order, one day calling himselt P.P.G.M., only having G.M.'s. certificate, then Secretary, next arrogating) to himself the style, Provincial Grand Master, attempting to suspend Lodges Trustees in the bank, aud substitute others of his own making. Next, this great man condescended to be N.G., and at a meeting of his following, at once proceeded to open a lodge without a legal warrant or a dispensation, intimating that that instru ment being unnecessary for him that could make lodges one day, and next forsooth ! with his fiat sweep away all tlie officers from the properly constituted Lodge 936. There is only one lodye in Auckland that hold a dispensation under N.1.0.F., and that is the Loyal Auckland Pioneer, 936 Temperance Hall, Albert-street; anything else is a delusion a sham, and warn the public against it.—Yours, etc, JOHN Wright. [The above has been unavoidably held over since Monday.]