ORANGE ORDER

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 7

ORANGE ORDER

J JOAI.I N lON OF LI CEJ IS AIR T. PAGAN, TREASURER (Per Press Association). Dunedin, April 7. The session of the Grand Orange Lodge of New Zealand yesterday passed resolutions recording regret at the passing of the Nurses and Midwive.s Amendment Bill as prejudicing the status of the nursing profession and placing sectarian hospitals in competition With public hospitals for State aid ; objecting to l the exempt! i.i bf lay teachers in certain private sihuols from the payment of the unemployment levy; protesting against the exteusiein of tile dental clinic service to Uio scholars of denominational schools; and renewing the protest against free railway travel to. the children ef deiLuiniiiiatioiuiil schools. ELECTION .OF OFFICERS Dominh.j.LL- officers-* elected were: R.AV.G.M., Bro. -Galbraith (Auckland); C.D.M., Bro. Agnew (Southland); G. Chap., Bro. Bcnfell (Dunedin); G sec., Bro. Patton (Dunedin); G. treas., Bro 1 . T. Pagan .Feilding); G.R. committee, Bros. Warren fCVin. terburv), Hunter (Wellingtoiti), HolJifiger (Christchurch), Elliott (Auckland), Loggia (Cln*iste..iureli), Aiinett (Tiinaru). *