ORANGE GRAND LODGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 5

ORANGE GRAND LODGE

—— x» (Pkb United Press Association.) WANGANUI, April 5. The Orange Grand Lodge continued its deliberations to-day. Resolutions were passed calling on tho New Zealand Government to make emphatic representations to the British- Government against the continuance of the envoy to the Vatican, and demanding that tho Government safeguard the State system of education, and also the immediate removal of all concessions, grants, or privileges to denominational schools, and granting the Education Department adequate finances' for the necessary accommodation at theso schools; and galling on the Government to remove a J.P. and a civil servant who were reported to .have attended the Irish Race Convention in Melbourne, which approved of Sinn Fcinism in Ireland and supported the demand for an Irish Republic. Regret was recorded at the United States' resolution demanding self-determina-tion for Ireland; and a motion was passed convoying to the King an expression of the Grand Lodge's profound loyalty to his Majesty's person and the ancient throno of Britain, and to tho Empiro. of whose unity the throno is the chief bond and the enduring 'symbol Bro. A. Noble was installed as R.W.G.M., and Bro. G. K. Smith as D.G.M. It wa6 decided to hold the next session in Ohristchurch.