FORESTERS' LODGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14300, 21 February 1910, Page 6

FORESTERS' LODGES.

I AXNUAI. DISTRICT MEETpfGL -} l t'■ '"' '. ■'~\ "■ •",':' y'--' : , ■ ■ : - :; ' \'■ ".;.:•• - There "was a large attendance of delegate* ■,*,' - act : the airesa] meeting of -the ■ AnriwsJ..Orfer.:;r " of Foresters, Auckland district, held by in-- » vitatios of Court Pride of Onehtraga; No, ! 5261, at the Formers': HaD,-Ond»aagai- m j j Thursday. Bro. P. Price, District•.■'Cfcirf >-! » Banger, {rre&iaed. .--.p I, ," The executive report showed a steady i»* i | crease in'= membership and funds. ■■^Om '% _ ladiss* otrart* Court Shaldriek, •'■ had how ,;. r opened during the year, whilst- the jaTsufle ' branches of tie order had made rapid pro- - ' gress. Daring the year claims on acooaat ; J of sickness -sere onasially heavy, 579 mem- :; . hers having received sick pay, ifsngi||| £3104 Is 3 cd. The district funeral fend had increased by £176 IS*- Id daring, the ."year.: ;-'< The fundi of the district were well inverted f; in mortgages .on -freehold secaiiiy, ' "Si. mitttr Sp menta, amounting to £11,158, earning «§ average rate of 5} per cent. There 'were "*&| mined daring the year 2*52 members. The election of district officers resulted a* i follows District Qaef Banger, ; Bxo. >' George Fell; District Sab-chief Sanger, Bro. Robert Darlow; District Trea«str«r, 1 Bro. James Stichbury (re-elected}; 'District | ' Secretary, Bro. E. J. Osborae; Distridt i Senior Woodward, Bro. W. A. Worrall; District Junior • Woodward, Bro. Jams* '•*; ShaMrick; District Beadle, Bro. A. A.; I Please; Immediate "P.D.C.B:, •■■ Bro. .¥, J j Price; District Trustees, Bros. A. E. Gw*»«i ssade,*C^ ; Sheppard, and ; D. J. Morgan; " >| District Auditors, Bros. C. P. Stkhbsay,, | i S- G. -Lee, and W. L. Rowlands. ; Bros. Rowlands and Kent were appointed \ • installing officers by the C-.R., the ceremony - being carried oat-haa most impressive manner. It was decided tc, present? Bro. D. J I Wright (district secretary), who- is rclin- :• quisling that , office after 11 years* '■' ; the order and district, with" a-' suitable sou- . vefiir,' the subordinate courts to he afforded . aßfopnbrttaiity, of joining in. , • ■ :' '".'• The*d%triiA execarive were in^rocted \tn% , prepare details of a. scheme having fc* ste i ' object- the amalgamation of the- sick foods t; of the society, for submission to next da*1 trict meeting. ?;"■ /' -. ~ '' .... ;;* .; — : ——, . ' — - ; t ;"--'-'- : '":V'.:" '-'%' : 'r'■■■■■.■ ::,:■*-'.',■'; .■ '■ : ' "&"'" -""-- :: r('\r'- [ church parade: J The annual church parade of; the ; An* ;,' dent Order of Foresters w?s held in : Auckland yesterday afternoon. The a»o- ---> bers of the various lodges connected with •'. the order assembled vin Ponsoaby Road, -;| near the Western Park, 1 at aboal 2.30 >' o'dockl Headed -by the Central Misscei \ Braiss Band, under the conduvtorship of Mr. F. G. BaEastine Bnranand, they then marchfid in. doable.'file' to the East-street Mission Hall, the : members of two ■'■:■ i female lodges bringing op the ■..•rear in open . cabs. ,An eloquent address was ! gives by: ■ . \ the Bier. Gray Djxoa. % The foilowing were the different cowrt* represented:—'Zity of ' Auckland,":ZealCTdia, Pride of r Onehanga, ■, ■.' 'Kobui; 1 -Hood, : v.Pridev-of;::':'Newmark>et,; Nil " - Desperacduni, Star of the South,""Victoria, . Birkenhead, and:the' female lodges ChisI tnan and Shaidrick."::-' Brothers D-<!XR. G. J Fell, D.S.C.B- Darlow, D-S-W. Worrall,'. " D.B. Piesse, D.S. D. J. Wright, a<Rd D.T. ' I 'jas.--.Stidblrary".: represented the ' district -;■ ' j executive. ;^,,''Ali•'•;■ 'members' : wore their;-.«c'/". ' j gaSia. -and ■the.-.-'co^mes : of Brothers itc» ' I Ewia and E. J. Osborne, who, : wore -the I I regalia of Bohttf Hood:-and;Utile John * I respectively, tent an ancient to»A of pic- .-.' " {toresfjuecess to the processisn. "'' ' ': "f '■...' • '•■■.••