MANCHESTER UNITY

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 10

MANCHESTER UNITY

LODGE AT PATEA. I . ”—- About 200 members of the Manchester Unity and their friends assembled at Paiea on Thursday evening for the opening of a branch of the order in the district. The presiding officers, who represented branches ; throughout the province, were N.G. Sis. M., Mackay (Toko), Sis. N. Bultimore (Excelsior), I.P.N.G. Bro. Vickers (Midhirst), conductor Sis. N. Gardner,, warden Bro. J. Martin, (Toko), guardian Bro. P. Putt (Excelsior), pianist Sis.. L. Blanchett (Excelsior). ' : - ?/■ 'V The District Grand" Master, Bro. D. G. Sherson, D.D.G.M. Bro. S. Renton, and the district secretary, Bro. N. B. Bellringer, officially, presented the dispensation and installed.the foundation officers aS follows: N.G., Bro. W. Bond; .V.G., Bro. C. S. Martin; I.P.N.G, Bro) W. T. Lamb/ secretary, Bro. N. R. Coad; treasurer, Bro. T. Floyd; trustee, Bro. J. W. Haswell; elective secretary, Bro. A. Bond; warden, Bro. L. Carver; guardian, Bro. B. W. Harvey. \ , The Grand Master congratulated the newly-installed officers on their appointment and said he was proud of the opportunity, with other keen members of the order, to forge another link in the chain of lodge? now functioning throughout Taranaki. He was pleased to think that there was so much enthusiasm in the Paiea district, and he wished the lodge every success. The lodge, he said, had been opened'in a spirit of co-opera-tion rather than one of rivalry. He paid a tribute to friendly societies already operating at'Patea. All of them were helping to spread the great moral principles on which friendly societies were founded.

Bro. Bellringer read a 'letter from the New Zealand Grand Master, Bro. A. Blair, congratulating members on their enterprise and the residents of Patea for giving the order an opportunity to operate in the district. The Manchester Unify was founded on the solid rock of human service and was consecrated to home and counrty. It was thus a great power for good in the land. , . Past district officers Bros. J. L. Walton, M. Gemhoefer and S. J. Bennett offered congratulations on\behalf of Nortfy Central and South Taranaki lodges., JAfci apology for absence was received from Bro. R. S. Sage, Hawera.