MASONIC LODGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 8

MASONIC LODGE

ANNUAL COMMUNICATION ELECTION OF OFFICERS GRANDMASTER INVESTED [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. About 450 delegates from all parts of the Dominion were present to-day at the opening of the annual communication of Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The gathering was presided over by the Governor-Gen-eral, Viscount Galway, in his capacity as Grandmaster. Consideration of annual reports of the Masonic boards and of remits dealing with the administration of the craft tormed the business of the morning session. The Grand Lodge then adjourned until the evening, when, at a gathering of over 2000 in the Town Hall, in spectacular and colourful ceremonies peculiar to the craft, the Grandmaster was reinstalled and other officers for the year were invested. Colonel J. J. Esson presided as installing Grandmaster, and other parts of the investiture ceremonies were carried out by Sir Stephen Allen, of Morrinsville, Messrs. G. Barclay, of Dunedin, and H. G. Teagle and G. Russell, of Wellington, S. C. Bingham, of Christchurch, and M. Thompson and W. R. T. Leighton, of Auckland. After his installation, the Grandmaster addressed the gathering on Masonic topics. Grand officers and boards for 193738 are: —Grandmaster, Viscount Galway; pro-Grandmaster, Mr. W. Lishner (Dunedin); deputy-Grandmaster, Mr. H. G. Teagle (Wellington); pro-vincial-Grandmasters, Messrs. E. Flavell (Canterbury), O. Nicholson (Auckland), J. H. Jerram (Wellington), J. A. Starrow (Otago), Campbell L. Macdiannid (Waikato), Garnet J. Yule (Southland), Cornelous D. Fraser (Ruapehu), Robert J. B. Waugh (Hawke’s Bay), John L. Ching (Nelson and Marlborough), Herbert Campbell (West Coast), and John C. Barclay (Taranaki); senior grand warden, Mr. G. R. Harker (Greymouth); junior grand warden, Mr. Alfred Bullock (Hamilton); grand chaplains, Canon Herbert O. T. Hanby (Christchurch), and the Rev. John Paterson (Stratford); grand treasurer, Mr. Thomas G. Weir (Dunedin) ; grand registrar, Mr. George T. Baylee (Dunedin); president of board of benevolence, Mr. J. H. Moir (Dunedin); senior grand deacons, Messrs. Frank Kirton (Papakura) and F. R. Padget (Invercargill); junior grand deacons, Messrs. E. E. Hill (Brunnerton) and A. J. Jones (Christchurch); elected members of board of general purposes, Messrs. J. Quaile (Dunedin), J. R. Dreaver (Dunedin), W. Dobson (Dannevirke), G. E. Applegarth (Bluff), T. M. J. Bedding (Paraparaumu), J. Bews (Dunedin), J. Burnip (Inglewood), L. Crow (Wellington), G. S. Johnson (picton), A. Nicol (Whakatane), R. Railley (Rawene), W. G. S. Romley (Ashhurst), A. T. C. Sellers (Christchurch), T. A. Smith (Waimarei), J. C. H. Somerville (Dunedin), A. C. Symons (Whangarei), T. Tomkins (Green Island), W. Tuck (Christchurch); elected members of the board of benevolence, Messrs. G. Waldie (Dunedin), J. D. King (Dunedin), A. J. Cannon (Dunedin), A. J. Jordan (Dunedin), A. H. Burgess (Rongotea), F. W. A. Clayton (Dunedin), J. R. Copland (Balclutha), A. R. Green (Motueka), W. T. Haig (Dunedin), J. Hewson (Opunake), C. E. Howell (Lincoln), E. Lane (Oamaru), W. Mitchell (Reefton), T. G. Niven (Petone), E. C. Pipie (Napier), A. Rillstone (Tuatapere), J. E. Trust (Pio Pio), R. Ward (Auckland); chairman of the board of management of the widows’ and orphans’ and aged masons’ fund, and of special (war) benevolent fund, Mr. J. H. Moir.