DRUIDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1692, 7 March 1913, Page 4

DRUIDS.

ANNUAL SEsIION OF GENERAL LODGE. fßy Telegraph.—Prcso Ajsociatlon.) Christchurch, March G. Tho twenty-third annual session of th' Grand Lodge of Druids opened to-day. A motion of condolcnoo was agreed fc in respect to the Antarctic disaster. The grand -president (Bro.' J. Burgess,, in his address, said that tho year ha< been a quiet one. Since 1890 thouneni bership of the district had increased iroi; 780 to 27G0, and tho funds from ,£207 t ,£12,550. Tho assets had risen from to In twenty-ono years •G30.9G had been paid in sick pay, £42,533 in doc tors' and chemists 1 foes, and o ii death claipis. , The election of officers resulted as fol low:—Grand president, Bro. E. Much more (Timaru); vice-president; Bro. W. J W. Neate (Pioneer); secretary, Bro. i Walker (Hope of St/Albans); treasurer. Bro. J. Jowsey (Hopo of St. Albans), board of management, Bros. J. W . Bah? Mistletoe), C. Davidson (Ltholbert), 1. George (Oak of Sydenham). H. Luxton (Ivv of Linwood). J. Rhodes (Anchor), H.'E. Smith (Pioneer), Thornton (Perseverance)! Judicial Appeal Committee, Bros. Swinnerton (Pionwr), lalbot (Mistletoe), Bales (Ivy of Linwood), Car)>enter (Lily of Richmond), Furneaiix (Hearts of Oak); auditors, Bros. A. L. Gray (Trafalgar), C. Johnson (HenHs of Oak), and J. Burgess (lyy t 5 ?i" 4The Grand Lodge meeting decided that the next Grand Lodge session be held at for preferential voting in the electiion of Grand Lodgo ofhecrs was agreed to unanimously. "At a special meeiing Bro. Bntley, P.G.P., was elected trustee in th cplaco of Bro. Manliire, resigned. _ - i ■