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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 31 March 1911, Page 7

Tlic employees of H. Martin, Ltd., nro holding tlieir annual picnic nt Day's Bay to-morrow (Saturday). Should tho weather be unfavourable, April 8 will be substituted. The picnic was to have been held early in January last, but was postponed to present date on account of the. death of the late Mr. Uoliert Martin.- An advertisement appears in another, column in reference■ to the closing of promises. At the regular fortnightly nicotine; of the Southern Cross Lodge, 1.0.0.F,, N.Z., last night, tbero was u fair nttendanen of members, and several visitors wero welcomed. Two new members were admitted into the lodge, and two new candidates wero proposed for membership. After the regular business had been dealt with, the U.D.G.M., Bro. Foster, on behalf of the lodge, presented F.C. Bro. L. T. M. Bodlcy with a framed member's certificate as an appreciation of past services. Bro. Bo'dley suitably responded. One of tho district representatives then gnvo a short resume of the Grand Lodge session, held in Palmorston North, last week. Among other interesting facts, he stated that, during the last two years twenty new lodges had been opened in New Zealand, and a report furnished showed that tho sick and funeral funds wero in an extremely .flourishing condition.