MASONIC LODGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6

MASONIC LODGE

DOMINION CONFERENCE. ELECTION OF OFFICIALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. The annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand opened in Auckland today. There are 303 active lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge and practically all are represented, mostly by sitting masters and officials of the Grand Lodge. The delegates and local Freemasons attending as spectators made a very large gathering. When the retiring Grand. Master, Viscount Galway, with officers entered the conference hall the first item on the agenda was the election of the grand master for the ensuing year. The unanimous choice of the lodges was Mr C. J. Ronaldson, of Christchurch, whose appointment was duly confirmed. Other important officers are filled by the Grand Master under his prerogative power. These include: Mr C. L. Mac Diarmid, of Hamilton, De-puty-Grand Master; Messrs O. Nicholson, Auckland; J. H. Jerram, Wellington; C. S. Thompson, Canterbury; J. A. Sparrow, Otago; C. L. Mac Diarmid, Waikato; A. Noble, Southland; A. W. Parkinson, Hawke’s Bay; H. Campbell. West Coast; J. L. Ching, Nelson and Marlborough; J. C. Barclay, Taranaki; C. D. Fraser, Ruapehu, all provincial grand masters. Together' with the incoming Grand Master, these officials will be installed in the Town Hall this evening. Messrs H. C. Mac Gibbon and R. A. Gillespie will be installed as senior and junior Grand Wardens respectively.