MEETINGS AND SOCIALS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16149, 1 March 1918, Page 2

MEETINGS AND SOCIALS.

I IVY OP LIXWOOD LODGE. At the quarterly euramoncd meeting of tho Ivy of Lin wood Lodge, Ko. 1", U.A.0.D., A.D. Bro. Bates vras in the chair. Two nevr ' mcmbera wet© initiated. Bro. Burgess subi mitted the annual report of the L-l'.o. UisI pensary. wliich was adopted. Sick pa} amounting to £11 was passc-d for payment. One new member vraa proposed. Unused, and in an excellent state ot preservation, there is now msplajed to the public a t the Dominion Museum a most elaborate writing table and■ cabinet in New Zealand woods (says the Wellington "Post"). Mottled kauri and ; rewarewa are the principal woods used, i and the workmanship offers a striving . contrast to much of the flimsy cabinet "work of to-day. The maker of "* e . Cil b'" net, apart from his skill in intarsia decoration, knew his work, and evidently took pleasure in it. The table and cabinet_ is the bequest of the late _Mrs H. Blair, and was given to the nation as a memorial of her first husband, the late i c Anderson Watt, formerly of Hawke's Bay.