ODDFELLOW'S LONG SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 6

ODDFELLOW'S LONG SERVICE

To celebrate his golden jubilee as an Oddfellow, Mr. Arthur Blair, who has had a long career as an office-bearer and is at present Grand Master for New Zealand of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, Wellington, will .entertain the members of the various lodges in the district and their wives this evening. Mr. Blair joined the Loyal Antipodean Juvenile Lodge, M.U., at the age of 14. Throughout a very active life, he has always been a keen Oddfellow, with a love for administrative work, as his lodge career shows. He became an adult Oddfellow in 1890, and it was not long before he passed through the various offices. In 1922 he was elected a trustee of the Loyal Antipodean Lodge and that same year he became a trustee of the Wellington District Widows' and Orphans' Fund. In 1923 Mr. Blair was appointed a member of the District Management Committee, and in 1925 he became Grand Master of the Wellington district. At the movable conference in Nelson in 1924, Mr. Blair was elected a Grand Trustee; in 1933 he was elected Deputy Grand Master for New Zealand, and last year he gained the highest possible office, that of Grand Master of New Zealand. In 1934, in company with P.G.M. Bro. John McLeod, of Auckland, and G.S ; Bro. A. G; Shrimpton, he attended the London conference. ■■■'■■■■ ■"■■'" ' ' . ' ■'..'., '- "' '.'.. '■■ '. '' i