WELLINGTON SAVAGE CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 4

WELLINGTON SAVAGE CLUB.

SPLENDID WELCOME IN AUCKLAND.

Savagery as it is understood -in . these . days .of Freemasonry : with the elementof sociability accentuated. There maybe a wide. divergence;' of opinion, your :; ' politics may be as opposite as the Poles, Si savagery brings.aQ.6n to,the one.social . : platform, and oxtends the glad hand of genial" manhood, which mates men-better \; men. This was apparent in the welcome / accorded to about thirty members .oi the local Savage: Clnb,- who visited the. parent club in Auckland •on . Saturday. -■ ■ They were almost, killed: with; kindness-v, strings of motor-cars were placed at the'- V visitors' - disposal, , tickets, for the races (and all' • the winners) >were given. them. - Those who jirefcrred'.tho bonny heather and the "goU" : stick were'given thefree- ; :dom'of the links.- 1 ' One .member - who - re- / ; •turned by yesterday's express said that, they were so muoh deferred to.that they were allowed to name the port at which : v the San Francisco mailboats would first call. After duo deliberation, at. a lata hour, they decided on Taihape, provided , Mr... Gunson ' can bo cajoled into agree- , ment. The good time , the wanderqrs are having: is'-pointedly! emphasised by:;.the;, j fact that only four of the'thirty who left on Friday returned to tell tlie .tale -yes- ;- terday. Tho rest wore picknicking at 4 Lake Takapuna, still as. the guests of the Auckland . Savage. Club. .. . ■ . . The' entertainment ..given by ; the Wellington Savages is said to have been.exceptionally bright: and clever. Among those who performed were: Savages B. - . Parkes, E. WV Robertson, E. J. Hill, A. W. Newton, G.' Toogood, Geo. Parsons, Fletcher, and J. . A. ; Doherty. Another .. contingent^of the: tourists: is;expected to - arrive by' this >fterno'on'i3 exgrasa. TV;