GOOD TEMPLARY NOT A BENEFIT SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 585, 19 February 1876, Page 3

GOOD TEMPLARY NOT A BENEFIT SOCIETY.

Sir, — I h»v» been r«qu n »t9^ to correul an error whioW has orept into a leid^r in your i-sue of the 17ih inst, in which t lie [ndop m-ieuc, Ordir of Ghjod IVmpltri i< <*llud«l to as a bom fie iiociety. Will you permit me to state that onr't ' is no* a beutiit Society in ths generally rectin-d acceptation of the term, at it ta not a molt and burial »r oisty. Ihe jnly benefit w.'iioh we offer ta member* are thoao whicb »re in-jep»riibly connects i *"t!i Tempor-iiicfl and a I^ife A-surance of iruraunity frcia the horror* ami evil* of druuktune'i. I belior* that a benefit iocintr exuti m , Auckland, of whiolj none bat Ghod Tomplars ' can becoma members, but that »oci«'ty in toUlly di*tmc6 from oi.r'*.— l an, &3. Wm Myluha, " Sjareury ♦' Hopa of W ulrAto " ..odge, lO(ii'. Himi.tin, February 18lu, 1876. [Wn alludeJ to the i'einoJar LjJjjos as benefit eocit-iies. limply at being classed with guch by ' the Ooternment in the special case of the enjo) - meut of tie pririle^es accorded under •ha tn.luatrial breach or the (Joverninent Li c Asaur*nce 'Department Our Cot respondent will see that we hare aguio alluded to the matter in the footnote to the letter of another dorres^ondeut. — Ed W T.J