Discontented Oddfellows.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1026, 21 January 1882, Page 4

Discontented Oddfellows.

Oddfellowship must be in a bad way in Naseby. Both the Lode in that town are going to break up. The local “ Chronicle ” says they find that the division of the fund as defied by the different laws regulating their societies, in such that, while the sick fund is swelled unduly, the management fund is continually in debt This necessitates levies, which are naturally paid with a very bad grace, when the sick fuud grows out of ail proportion to its requirements. The Registrar-General is also found to be a great nuisance. He and his myrmidons are insatiable. Indeed some Lodge Secretaries say that the officer doubles their work (of course doubling at the same time the clerical expense of the Lodge), that they would sooner do all the other work of the Lodges—take minutes, conduct correspondence and keep the accounts—than undertake to fill up the returns required by the Registrar-General. The members of the Order in Naseby intend forming themselves into a kind of Medical Union based much upon the same line as Oddfellowship, the chief difference being that the Union, would be free from the ridiculous and drastic influence of the RegistrarGeneral, the Friendly Societies Act, and the regulations of the Grand Lodges.”