Proposed Friendly Societies Demonstration

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 11 September 1886, Page 2

Proposed Friendly Societies Demonstration

[from oub own correspondent.] Wellington, This Day. A meeting of secretaries and officers of the different Wellington Friendly Societ- | ies was held last evening at the Oddfellows Hall to talk over the proposed demonstration on the 9th of November at Waikanai. Some seventeen lodges were represented, including the Eoyal Manawatu Lodge of Oddfellows. P.M.G. Bro. N. Cowper, of Palmerston, was representative of the latter lodge, and said I he believed his lodge had been the first to : move in this demonstration, and since he ■ had been in Wellington he had waited on Mr Wallace, General Manager of the Wollington-Manawatu Railway Co., and had learnt that it was not as yet definitely decided on what day the Railway would be opened, and that while the Company would be pleased to assist the Societies in making the demonstration a success, he would not guarantee to be open for the 9th, and the Company would prefer the Societies not at present to fix a date for holding the domonstra i <n, yet he should like it to be opened on the 9th of November. The demonstration could not be held on that day without doing tho Societies a great harm, as tho Directors and Shareholders proposed taking their friends through to Waikanai on the day of the opening to see the last pile driven connecting the two sections of line, j Several representatives spoke to the same : : effect, and proposed that the Manawatu Societies hold a demonstration at Palmerston North or some other central town on a suitable holiday after the 'line is opened, and invite the Wellington Soci- | eties to attend, when the invitation would : receive favorable consideration, and fully a thousand Friendly Society members f would likely attend. Great enquiries are Veing made among the different Wellingti n athletes as to when the Feilding Atlf efcio and Palmerston Caledonian Sports programmes are to appear.