MASONIC

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1928, Page 3

MASONIC

NUW ZUALAND GRAND 1.0 DG F. ANNUAL COMM UN I CATKIN. DUN If DIN. Nov. 28. FINAXCK. The financial statement showed the ca h balances of flic several funds to aggregate £118,012. of which the principal items were : General Fund. £1 .‘!.-l!)7 : AY blows and Orphans and Aged Masons’ Fund, £87.901; Special War Benevolent Fund, £7772; Fund of Benevolence. £6671 : Circular Appeal Fund. £ll7l ; Representation Fund, £1624. 'BO \ R D OF G UN Ul \ AL Pl' RPOS'IOS. The re port of the Board of General Purposes showed that the total membership of the New Zealand Constitution on .Tune M 0 was 21.227. an increase in the year of 648. Six new b>,in ( . s bad been opened—at Seddon. Wellington fitfibik ati v Porajygyy;; lm,i and Ancklnmh; C-ity (two). :; Oue,4a use in tin* boards- : report ment-K»ii-ed a donation by Brother F. S. Potter. of Auckland, of six acres of land on Panmure Road lor the pniqxjSg of establishing homes in which nee"-' sit-ms Freemasons and tlieir wives may live tree in, Hip latter days of ttijirijlives. AVitli ga-d to the Alasonie. Tnt;ti,tc. v,>|s-> ll . tb<* hoard recommend--■d --I grant of £6OO towards the - cart’V’ng end 'if str"ci oral alt’erations to the huildiims. Hi'cret was I'xnr-P 1 l, v the ’-ourd at -tlie retirement from office of four 'Provincial Grand Abaters. P.W. Brother*; IV . Lisrbnor (Ofago i. C. IT. ,-Critc.b.lev. (Hawke’s Bay). H. G. Teagle (Wellington), and TL C. .Smith (Southland), and ac-kn-'wlcdireii’i' 1 -i was macb'dl the value of tlieir services to the.'.craft. Tt was recommended that the peg;l annua' communication be held in Auckland. \ ■ Tlie afternoon silt in" "' 0 ~ taken trmainlv with tlie consideration <r amendments to Grand Lqd |r e laws. 4 -,t A JURIDICAL CMMAirn'KU.-y.;' \ For upwards of an hour discus-fid' ranged around two dif'erent of providing for the constitution of ' new body to give advice on (|U-''sl ioie of Masonic law, custom or procedure. One scheme, submitted b\- the (Roan 1 of General Purp"ses. "rovided I'm- - inridial board of three, with tieGrand Registrar as its chairman. 11 other, emanating from the Past Grm Registrar, proposed simply a .'endin' committee whose opinions vo’Jd G sought by correspondence when re 1 quired. 'flic juridical committee- scheme wa ■ evcntuallv adopted. | LOCATION OF GRAND LODGU | OFFICE, j After a rest of many years tlie (pies j tion of centralisation of the Gram j Lodge office came up for consider? I tion, i.e., its fixed location in om centre in lieu of the peripatetic system

of the last thirty-eight years, under which the Grand Secretary has his office for ueriods of two years in each of the four centres in turn.

The Board of General Purposes submitted a recommendation in favour ol the choice of a permanent resting place for the office. It proposed that the incoming hoard should he instructed to authorise the craft lodge* throughout the territory to rise and vote for or against centralisation, askill i.r oa'll lodge to indicate which centre in its opinion should he chosen, in the event of a. two-thirds majority decidin'; neon a permanent home for the office the necessary amendments of the constitution should he submitted to Grand Lodge next year. It was, however, intended to adlmre to the present system of holding the annual communications in each of the four centres in rotation. All amendment in favour of referring the question to the incoming hoard with a view to investigation of the pros and cons of the question was. after a long debate, negatived.

The recommendation in favour of reference of the question to the lodges was then agreed to. As business still remained on t lie ■i-mnda noimr at 6.if) p.m. Grand Lodge (le"i(lod to sit again at !).M0 a.m. next day.

INSTALLAT’OY OF GRAND AIASTUR.

DUNEDIN. Nov. 28

The re-installation of Fir Charles Ferginson m s Grand Master look place at a very large gathering of members of the craft held in the pveninc. AI.AAk Brother Thomas Ross. Past G.M.. was (lie installing Grand Master. BAA. Proflmr AAkitts was inducted as ProGrand Master.

F'-llriviiie mon hi* 'w‘-'Hation, the Grand Master announced his nnpn-nt-ment of the following olficers, most of whom were present and were duly m-

’.-o-led ;—Doontv Grand A 1 aster. BAA . Brother 'Charles J. Bona bison. oT Christchurch. Grand Afa 1 --- ters— Aiir-klanci. A'AV. Brother O. Yieholson ; AAMlingt-ni. B.AV. 'Brotlmr U. .1. Guinness; r Hago. R.AV, Urothm--T. TT. ALiir: Southland. B.AV. Brother .Vex. DorLie: Hawke’s Bay. BAA. Brother J. A' - . lUtelde; AWt Coast. B.AV. Brother U. Dac-re ]>unn ; Nebon iincl ALu-lhorongh, B.AA. Brotlier AA . J. Girling: Taranaki. B.AV. Brother 0. AA r . Bogers: B-uapelin. R.AA 7 . Brother A. J. Graham. Canterbury has •1 Provincial Grand ATaster of its own election in BAA. Brother Tie Ben head of its 'Provincial Grand Lod'-e. stenior Grand AA ar'b-n, B.AA . Brother S. T. S. Martin (AA'ellington) ; Junior Grand AA’ardon. R.AV. Brother F. AA . Herhert (Auckland). r |’be officers elected at the forenoon sitting were al*o invested. ' Tire Grand ATaster. in his address from tlie throne, spoke elocpmntlv of the need for maintaining high ideals in Freemasonry, and especially for ■■strengthening the spiritual side of the institution, and as evidence in these respects keeping ever in view the systematic support of the craft’s benevolent institutions.