GRAND LODGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 11

GRAND LODGE.

t MASONS OF DOMINION. Per Press : Associatoin. AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. About 450 delegates from all parts of the Dominion were present to-day. at the opening of the annual Communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand. Consideration of annual reports of Masonic boards and of remits dealing with the administration of the craft formed the business of the morning session. Grand Lodge then adjourned until the evening, when, at a gathering of over 2000 in the Town Hall, in the spectacular and colourful ceremonies peculiar to the craft, the Grand Master was reinstalled ai.,l 'other officers for the year were invested. Colonel J. J. Esson presided as installing Grand Master, and other parts of the investiture ceremonies were carried out by Sir Stephen Allen (Morrinsville), Messrs G. Barclay (Dunedin), H. G. Teagle and G- Russell (Wellington), S. C. Bingham (Christchurch), and M. Thompson and W. R. T. Leighton (Auckland). After his installation, the Grand Master addressed the gathering on Masonic topics. Grand officers and hoards for 193738 are: —Grand Master, Viscount Galway; pro-Grand Master, Mr W. Lishner (Dunedin) ; Deputy-Grand Master, Mr H. G. Teagle (Wellington) ; Provincial Grand Masters, Messrs C. Flavell (Canterbury), O. Nicholson (Auckland), J. H. Jerram (Wellington), J. A. Starrow (Otago), Campbell L. McDiarmid (Waikato), Garnet J. Yule (Southland), Cornelius D. Fraser (Ruapehu), Robert J. B. Waugh (Hawke’s Bay), John L. Ching (Nelson and Marlborough), Herbert Campbell (West Coast), and John CBarclay (Taranaki) ; Senior Grand Master, Mr G. R. Harker (Greymouth) ; Junior Grand Warden, Mr Alfred Bullock (Hamilton) ; Grand Chaplains, Canon Herbert O. T. Hanby (Christchurch) and Rev. John Paterson (Stratford) ; Grand Treasurer, Mr Thomas G. Weir (Dunedin) ; Grand Registrar, Mr George T. Baylee (Dunedin) ; president of the Board of General Purposes, Mr James G. Dykes (Dunedin) ; Grand Secretary, Mr Henry A. Lamb (Dunedin) ; president of the Board of Benevolence, Mr J. H. Moir (Dunedin); Senior Grand Deacons, Messrs Frank Kirton (Papakura) and F. R. Padget (Invercargill) ; Junior Grand Deacons, Messrs E. E. Hill (Brunnerton) and A. JJones (Christchurch). The following were elected members of the Board of General Purposes: Messrs J. Quaile (Dunedin), J. It. Dreaver W. Dobson (Dannevirke), G. E. Applegarth (Bluff), T. M. J. Bedding (Paraparaumu), J. Bews (Dunedin), J. Burnip (Inglewood), L. Crow (Wellington), G. S. Johnson (Picton), A. Nicol (Whakatane), R. Railley (Rawene), W- G- S. Romley (Ashhurst), A. T. C. Sellars (Christchurch), T. A. Smith (Waimarie), J. C. H. Somerville (Dunedin), A. C. Symons (Whaligarei), T. Tomkins (Green Island), W. Tuck (Christchurch). The following were elected members of the Board of Benevolence: Messrs G. Waldie (Dunedin), J. D. King (Dunedin), A. J Cannon (Dunedin), A. J. Jordan (Dunedin), A. H. Burgess (Rongotea), F. W. A. Clayton (Dunedin), J. R. Copland (Balclutha),. A. R. Green (Motueka), W. T Haig (Dunedin), J. Hewson (Opunake), C. E. Howell (Lincoln). E. Lane Oamaru) W. Mitchell (Reefton) 1. G, Niven CPetone), E. C. Pine (Napier), A. Rillstone (Tuatapere), J. E. Trust (Pio Pio), R. Ward (Auckland). Mr J H Moir was elected chairman of the board of management of the widows and orphans'and aged Masons fund and of tfie special (war) benevolent fund.