GOOD TEMPLARY—NEW LODGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 559, 18 December 1875, Page 2

GOOD TEMPLARY— NEW LODGE.

A. mertinq wm held on Tuesday erening last at the W>sley«n Chapel for the purpose of form* ing a new lodge, owing to the pioneer lodge haviog become too large to be easily workable. There was a numerous attendance. Bro 0 B Maiden, S D, O\W 0 T, « aB is(ed by the wiou* qfficert appointed for the occasion, presided, and after "admit ting some 18 or 20 members on clear* ance iVom the Hope of Waikato Lidge, proceeded'to. initiate new member*. Tb« following office-bearer* for the en»u nj? quarter were then elco'rd by'fbe members and duly ias* ailed bv the Deputy :— W OT, Bro Lewis O'Neil ; W V T, Bro Sergt Fra*er; W S, Bro James Browne ; W 0, BrO James Longbottom ;W F S, Bro Hitid, ten ; W T, Bro Jomas ; W M, Bro ThoaijjsoD ; W I &,- Bro Cook ; WOG, Bro Moore. Bro Quod wne tppointod Lodge Dopu'y and B<«n Foster PWO '[ •, Sistert Annie Kay and Knox ngkt and left U*nd supporters ; Bru Pettie, W D M, and Bro Hind, SfT AB. It was deeiJed to call the lodge the " Onward to Victory." The nisfht ofmoetingto be Tuesday at 7-30 o'clock in each Wt-ek, at the Wesfoyan Chapel. It was also agreed ihit the la*t Tuesday ia each month skould be «ot apart for friendly disou»Mon and recreation, when all business would be suspended. Borne bnsia^ss matters were then goue into, after which Bros O'Neil, G-ood, aud Fraser, respectively, in a f ew appropriate words thanked the members of the lodgo fur the high petition in which they had placed them. The meetmg then terminated.