Opening new Templar Lodge.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3229, 25 June 1879, Page 2

Opening new Templar Lodge.

The ceremony of instituting a new Lodge of Good Templars took place last evening at .Freemason*' Hall, Brd. ■ W. J. Speight, P.G.W.C.T., actiDg as instituting officer. There was a ver^. large attendance of officers and members of the sister lodges. The initiation of several new members having been gone through, the following were'unanimously elected officers pf, the !", Hatjbak? Lodge: No,. 32 " for the current term :—W.C.T., Bro. <3k Newell Phillips; W.V.T., Bro. J. S. Small; W.S., Bro. C. Gribble;. W.F.S., BroVfiJ A; K. Owen ; W.T.yßro: Wilkinson ; W.C., Bro. Halliwell; W-M., Bro. Mackie, L.D.. and D.M., Bro. Honiss ; 1.G., Bro. Smeaton; 6.G., Bro. J. P. Horn; A.S., Sister Clark r&.HJS^Brpi Pbttofton; and JCi.H;S., Bro. Compton.! ATter the W.C.T.' had 4ejiyered h|s inaugural address, some routine; business was transacted, including the appointment of to secure suitable premises for the proposed club and reading room in connection with the lodge.? Addresses of congratulation were given by Bro. Lee, W.CiT., Star Lodge, and Bro.fHammohd, of the Pioneer. P.G.W.C.T. Bro Speight having acknowledged the yote^ of thanks for his services as instituting officer, lodge closed in the usual form at 9.30. '■