FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2419, 6 February 1909, Page 5

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ' RECHABITES.

The biennial meeting of representatives of the New Zealand Central District of the Independent Order of Rechabites takes place at Masterton on Tuesday, February 9th. The meeting is to be opened at 9.30 a.m. in the Foresters’ Hail. A large amount of business is to be transacted, including election of officers and amendments to rules. Amongst the proposed amendments are the following: To alter the representation so that Tents may have one vote for each 100 members good on the books at. the last quarterly returns before the district meeting; to alter the rules so that members shall be paid sick pay for the days of declaring on and oft the fund; to consider the formation of a fund to pay the contribution of all old members; to divide the district into sub-districts; to have au assistant district secretary appointed to act as organiser under instructions of the district officers; that all Tents should join the central sick fund and the district officers bring forward a new rule to regulate the working of this fund; that new members receive 10s per week sick pay after six months’ membership, 20s per wee’k when twelve months for one year’s continuous sickness, and 5s per week afterwards during the same sickness. A large number of alterations arc also proposed in the juvenile department of the Order. The business is expected to occupy a couple of days. The representative for the Gisborne Tent, Bro. Nasmith, leaves by the Waikare to-morrow evening. UNITED ANCIENT ORDER OE DRUIDS. The biennial District Meeting of the North Island Grand Lodge of Druids opens at Palmerston North on Monclay evening at 7.30. A large amount of business is to be transacted, including proposed, amendments to rules Among the latter are proposals to put the death levy, of the Order on a sound financial footing, to establish a fund to pay old members’ contributions, and to alter the representation of lodges at the Grand Lodgcv meeting. Numerous minor alterations to the rules arc also proposed. Bro. G. E. Darton, flic representative of the Turanganili Lodge, leaves by the Waikaro to-morrow evening.