MASONIC GRAND LODGE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 5

MASONIC GRAND LODGE.

[United Peess Association.]

Dunedin, May 8. At a jtneeting of tho Masonic Grand Lodge today. Bro. Thomson, of Invercargill was appointed Grand Master. Among the other officers elected were, for the Nelson and Marlborough districts. Grand Standard-Bearer, Bro. Esson; Grand Steward, Bro. Wilkinson; a member of the Board of Benevolence, Bro, Boundy. In his address, the new Grand Master reviewed the position, of' the various funds. stating the „ 'c^sh,, balances to-day were £27,395, as against £72 in 1891 at the end of the Grand Lodge's first year. The amendment of the constitution adopted pro/ides for the appointment of grand j lecturers. I

At the evening sitting the new Grand Master, was installed. He announced his appointed officers as follows : Deputy Grand Master, R. ,W. Bro. .Kearsly,, Auckland; Provincial Grand Masters: Auckland, R.W. Bro T. W. Allen; Wellington, R.W. Bro T. Peterkin ;, Otago, R.W. Bro. A. Stonellam; Southland, R. W. Bro. F. A. Stearis ; West Coast, R. W. Bro. W. H. Hardness; Hawke's ay, R.W. Bro. T. Hobson; Nelson and Marlborough, R.W. Bro. W.'E.C. Redman ; Taranaki, R.W. Bro. T. C. Fookos. Senior Grand Warden, R.W. Bro. J. A. Nash, of Pamerston North ; Junior Grand Warden, R.W. Bro. J. A. Frositiok. of Christchurch.

The officers elected in the afternoon were invested.