LOYAL VOLUNTEER LODGE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 11

LOYAL VOLUNTEER LODGE.

Ui£> quarterly meeting of the Loyal Volunteer Lodga, Manchester "Cmty Oddfellows ■was held in tho Friendly Societies Hall, Hazeldean road, last week. XG-. Bro. S. Ciook presided over a largo attendance o£ members- A visit was received, from the Irtiyal City of Jforvrich Lodge (1/yitclton district accompanied •by Bros. If.'CarreU and W. T. i'oster, Prov. Grand Master and Pro? Corresponding Secretary respectively of tho Lyttelton. district. Thdre-■ visitors present from city of Cirri church Kiccarton and Vi'mton Lodges. After tbe 1 conclusion of business, tlio aclionmed tor <hc purpose of entertaining the visitors. A musical programme vras earned out- and refreshments were provided. Bio C. ilillington. D.G.M., of Canterbury district, in proposing- the toast of the Loyal (Jit}' of Jvo lge, said that tho visiting lodge was established -in Lvtielton in ISoO immediately after the arrival of the first four ships, ana was therefore the mother lodge -oi the- districts Wrinif in Canterbury. He welcomed he members of the Lod S c, and hoped that tbc visits . between .the two ■ lodges wtach awi lapsed darin- the war owing to th 2 rc ßt nctM railway facilities. -nould now- tc resumed carried ont with tho same enjoyment "pj P -Bro. J. A. Mcrriman proposed the toast of tee visitors, lie said that thj T/Oval Voinntrer Lodge always pkascd to "receive visitors not . only on nights when Sc T od-e. had made-arrangements for their entertainment, _ but also on tho occasion of anv nieetms of the Lodge. Tho toasts- wt-'TC reaponaed .to by tie \ .w. of the Git v of Xorwich and reprceen"'of "tho Tarioti3 lodges present. Prov. G M B*o Carroll and Prov. C. S. Bro. Foster fnoto 'on the great underlying principles • the Order' and said the vitality of tho Order in I.yUelion . v.-■«, evidenced by the recent ouenili- ot a . frmalo lodge, whreii woiitd f.U'enJthcn tbc social -e:dc of- their v'o rk.'