INTERNATIONAL RECHABITE CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 13

INTERNATIONAL RECHABITE CONFERENCE.

..'i r ; .. ■; ■, The llitrli Movable Conference of the Independent-' Order, of .-.ltechabitesi was held .thik year, at' Birmingham, England,i'.and was ''intended,no: fearerVthan 225-.delegates, Now Zealand being hhly represented by. Bros. Stewart arid Np#man (Auckland), add Malins (Napier). ;The.', membershipof' tho order .was 'reported; tbi.be .494,905, -an .increase' /of. 37,685 since 'the last- conference (two 1 years ago), 625 new; branches having' been: oponed during tho term. The reporfc'of-the : valuatiori of. tho order was received, and'the valubr',(Bro. Wells Smith, /congratulated. " the' order on its 'splendid finaticfal;;position. ; .In.'.the aggregate •the valuation shows a surplus of 433,471, and a relative :degre6i of' solvency of . 20.4 Jd. in the £.\ -India, South ' Africa; Australia,' New Zealand, and Canada are., to be visited by a depu:tatiori of,.high flfflcers'early in 1011. The sum of .£l5O was voted to the' family of the late. High Chief IRuleriißro. D. Main. The .following were the officers elected for the ensuing, two years:—High; Chief Ruler,' Bro; J. 'Philip9on v (Nowc(\stleVi High ;Dopnty, Ruler, Bro. W/> Ai ''Piatt (Bury); High Treasurer, Bro. Highet;' .Hifch: Secretary, Brn. R. Camp, bell- (Manchester) j. High .Superintendent, ' Bro; Stanton' (London):; directors, Bros. Bell; ■ Caton,' Taylor, David, .Scarlett, Mackintosh; Dunnaehie, and Newton; auditors, .Bros. Williams and Lewis; editors of magazines (adult), Bro. Wardroppor; . (juvenile), llro. V. W. Brett.