FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 90, 18 April 1939, Page 6

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

1.0.0. F. OF N.Z.

Last week Sister A. E.> McKinnon, L.D.D.G.M., Wellington District, installed the officers of Rose of Wellington Rebekah Lodge for the ensuing term. The lodge celebrated its 15th anniversary on the same occasion.

Officers of Rehiri Rebekah Lodge for current terms were also installed last week at St. Aidan's Hall, Miramar by Sister McKinnon and staff.

Bro. A. J. Holding, D.D.G.M., Wellington, assisted by district officers, has installed the officers of Cleveland Lodge, Brooklyn, for the ensuing term. Last Thursday the term officers of Zealandia Lodge, Newtown^ were installed by the Grand Master (Bro. G. F. Rudkin), assisted by Bros. A. J. Holding, D.D.G.M., R. J. Mathers, Grand Chaplain, B. W. Churchill, G.L. Rep., J. D. Cooksley, G.L. Rep., F. J. Jones, P.D.D.G.M., E. D. Wallis, P.D.D.G.M., H, A. Hardham, P.G.L. Rep., C. Porter, J. Honore, and J. Redmond. The principal officers installed were: Bros. E. Rowntree, J.P.G.; E. Palmer, N.G.; N. C. Palmer, V.G.; E. D. Wallis, F.S.; C. Blakemore, R.S.; and H. J. Darkins, treasurer. Responding to a vote of welcome, the Grand Master tendered greetings from Grand Lodge, and from South Canterbury, West Coast, Nelson, Marlborough, Wanganui and Wellington North districts recently visited, and where he had personally installed the local District Deputy Grand Masters. He tendered greetings from Hylton Lodge, Aramoho, whose new hall he had dedicated last week, and Rangitikei Lodge, Bulls, which had celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 12, with a dinner, at which 160 were present, and a ball, at which 350 were present in the Town Hall, Bulls, among them being Bro. J. E. Walker, P.D.D.G.M., Mayor of Bulls, first secretary (1889) and the first N.G., Bro.' J. Dowling, who held office in 1889.