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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14026, 7 April 1920, Page 3

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The annual meeting of the District Committee < f Otago Manchester Unity i.l Oddfellows was held at Palinerston vcsU-rdav. I'rov. G.M. W. Fleming presiding over a lorge gathering of dele- ; gates. t The Provincial Grand Master, in un j course of Ins address. mentioned thai I the financial statement showed that :hey then had lodge funds to the value j ot over 1:200.000. This showed a catis- } factory animal increase. .Since the bci ginning of the war their funds had I grown by over £38.000. The quiiujiienj nial valuation of 1914 disclosed that the district was in a solvent condition ; i the next valuation was. for the period | ended December 31. 1919. and was i eagerly looked for. The first results of j tlie great war would then be shown, and i he available for the making of any adjustments that might be thought, desirable. .Their procspects were bright in i gard to the decrease in sickness experience and increases in financial and numerical strength. The annual report showed that the number- of members, -lannary 1. I'Jl'h -loO" 5 : number admitted during the year —by initiation and reinstatement -130. by clearance 17. —total. 5015; less left—by arrears and resignation "8. clearance 2(5. death 4!): total remaining December 31, 1919. 4862—an increase for the year of 294. The value cf Lodge funds at December 31st was £201.064. —Loyal Palnierston Lodge.— The jubilee of this lodge was celebrated by a dance in the Town HalloMonday evening and by a smoke sociil last evening, there being a large ..t----tendanco at each function. The lodge was opened on March 20. 1870. with IS members, and at the end of the year the funds totalled £3l 13s -Id. By the lasi return the membership showed 97. and the funds £3685 3s Id. Three, rf the criminal members —Bros. .John McKean. Win. Robertson, and Charles Gillespie—are still on the roll. Yesterday afternoon P.P.G.M. Uro. Fleming unveiled a roll of honor erected to the lnemorv of 32 members of thelodge who took part in the great war, some of whom made the supreme sacrifice. The Last Post was sounded by Bro. J. those present standing. The Hon. E. P. Lee (Minister of Justice) tva.-s present. In theccrse a few remarks he said lie felt thai the sacrifices made by these men should not be forgotten. There was no rulestion about it that the Empire had been in dire peril, and it had only been due to t hi" concentration of the whole of her forces that she had been rescued. Our, sympathies went out to the relatives of those men who had suffered and died for vis.

The proceedings closed with the singing of the National Anthem.