GRAND LODGE OF DRUIDS
TIMARU, March 8. The Canterbury District Grand Lodge of Druids opened its annual session here last night. Fifteen out of eighteen lodges were represented. The reports show a membership in Canterbury of 1617, a net increase of 80: The aggregate funds amounted to £22,788, an increase of £1306 in eleven years. _ Since it became independent of Victoria the sum of £2700 had been paid on account of the funeral fund, £II,BOO in sick pay, and £12,000 in doctors’ fees. A proposal to take a plebiscite on the question of. adopting a system of a funeral levy of sixpence per member was approved by a bare majority, to carry to the R.A. Chapter. The rules were amended to give 20s instead of 10s per week for the first six months of sick-pay. A proposal twis establish female lodges was rejected.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1515, 14 March 1901, Page 27
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