FIRST ORANGE LODGE.
To the Editor. Sir, —Under the caption of “A Challenge” an interested correspondent has made reference to a mis-statement made by the chairman at the Orange function in the Rosewood Tea Rooms on Saturday night. Your correspondent is perfectly correct in his assertion—that the first lodge was formed in the house of a man named Sloan at Dian, near the Diamond on the evening of September 21, 1795. However, your correspondent may rest assured that the chairman’s reference to Dan Winter’s house as the site of the first lodge was purely a “lapsus linguae,” caused by his thoughts on the important part played by Dan Winter’s house in the events of the day The chairman, as a studious Orangeman, knows his subject to., well to be guilty of a deliberate error, and there will probably be no need for a resort to weapons to secure the “amende honourable.”—l am. etc., P.M.
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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 3
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154FIRST ORANGE LODGE. Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 3
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