Installation Meeting Of The Vincent Lodge, No. 3031.

Installation Meeting of the Vincent Lodge , No . 3031 .

MIRTH tinged with melanchol y is necessarily the keynote of most installation meetings , inasmuch as while the new-comer in the Master ' s office may be the considered choice of the brethren , there cannot , at the same time , but be a pang of regret at the loss of the outgoing ruler . Especially was this the case in the passing from the chair of

one who had been the Master during the first year of the lodge ' s existence . Bro . Leonard Cook is no unimportant member of the Grand Secretary ' s staff , where he commenced his career , having been initiated under age by dispensation . Since that time Masonry has had , at any rate , few more

faithful adherents ; and not the least of Bro . Cook's achievements has been the bringing into being , together with the other founders , of the above lodge , named after the late Bro . William Vincent , P . G . Std . Br ., a P . M . of Bro . Cook ' s mother lodge , No . 1194 .

una Fiii : in : iiicK GII . I , HICK , W . . The new Worshipful Master , Bro . Frederick Gill Rice , both b y his execution of what work he had to do , no less than b y his appropriate speech later in the evening , showed

that , to use his own words , he would prefer lo create tradition rather than to follow it . The Lodge has every reason to be proud of its Master for the ensuing year , who is not only one of the best workers , but also one of the most popular members of the lodge . That the meeting was a representative one may be inferred from the list of those present : —

Bros . F . G . Rice , W . M . ; L . G . Cook , I . P . M . ; Henry Times , P . Dep . G . D . C . ; Charles Butcher , A . G . Purst . ; Rev . F . May , M . A ., Prov . G . Chap . Middx . ; W . A . Clark , P . M . ; E . " Monson , J . P .. P . M . Treas . ; T . Walters , S . W . ; A . J . Philcox , J . W . ; W . Taylor , and A . J . Campbell , Deacons ; "

E . Usher , I . G . ; H . Stubbs , P . M ., D . of C . ; H . W . Clarkson , P . M ., Org . ; Rev . Dixon , P . G . Chap . Tasmania ; Fletcher , Weller , Tomes , P . M . 's ., and many others . Amongst ( he many agreeable incidents of the gathering was the presence of a number of the Worshipful Master ' s old

school-fellows , one at least of whom , Bro . Bradley Alexander ( to give his professional name ) was responsible for much of the enjoyment of the post-prandial proceedings . The balance sheet showed a gratifying amount on the credit side , after the sum of ten guineas had been deducted

for the Benevolent Institution , a first year ' s result on which the lodge is to be congratulated . At the banquet , Bro . C . Butcher , A . G . Purst ., replied for the Grand Officers , while Bro . Frederick Rice in response to the toast of " His Health , "said that in common with such things as classical music , and other things of which the ordinary

man stood in awe , the office of Worshipful Master was not so fearsome as it seemed , although he had not been without his own feelings of trepidation as that memorable occasion had grown near . Bro . Cook made a very graceful exit from the position which , as testified by the assembled members of the lodge ,

he had filled so well . The esteem of the brethren , culminating in the P . M . ' s jewel presented to him that evening was , he said , a sufficient reward for anything he had been able to do during the past year . The toast of " The Visitors " was acknowledged by Bros .

Rev . F . W . May , King , Green , and How . The toast of " The Treasurer , Secretary , and Officers of the Lodge " concluded the adulatory part of the programme , which was interspersed with a first-class concert .

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