MASONIC GRAND LODGE
ANNUAL COMMUNICATION
CLOSED
From Our Special Correspondent,
CHRISTCHURCH, May 14.
The annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge concluded this morning with a sitting of two hours devoted to business only of Masonic interest. The Grand Lodge will reopen at Wellington in May of next year. i Notices of motion handed in for next communication include one for transfer of £2OOO from the benevolent fund to the annuity fund, and others for subdivision into two of the present Auckland and Wellington Masonic provinces. One interesting feature of the proceedings of tho session was the presentation of a purse of sovereigns subscribed by lodges of the Dominion to tho Grand Secretary (M.W. Bro. Nicool), who starts off in the course of two or three weeks for a holiday trip to the Old Country. Frees Association.
Tho social portion of tho proceedings was brought to a conclusion with a garden party held at tho racecourse reserve in the afternoon, and a conversazione and ball were held at the Alexandra Hall in the evening.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8733, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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