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Correspondence.
employed in other offices . Let that salary command as it ought to do the entire services of some Brother able and willing to devote his AA'hole time and all his energies to promoting the AA'cIfare of the Royal Benevolent Institution , I remain , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER .
[ Wo cannot altogether agree that it is the duty of the secretary to look after the gravel walks of the asylum , as AVC have a warden , who monthly makes a report to the committee , as to the state of the institution . With regard to the secretary ' s salary AA'e are not going to express any opinion ; but our correspondent is mistaken in supposing that the secretary of the Girls School is called upon to give up the whole of his time to the
interests of that institution—Bro . Crew being also the secretary of the Royal Caledonian Asylum , an office in whicli he gives as great satisfaction to the Governors as he does to the Governors of the Freemasons' Girls School . With regard to Bro . Moss , he , like Bro . Farnfield , also holds a situation in the Grand Secretary ' s office . —ED . ]
Masonic Charities.
MASONIC CHARITIES .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? TIIE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIUTlOn . DEAR SIK AND BROTHER , —Fully agreeing with the remarks in' your article on the late festival for the Annuity Funds , on the value and importance of the festivals to our several charities , may I , through your columns , remind the provincial brethren , that much may be clone by a persevering canvass in our several Lodges . Three years ago , our Lodge , just then emerging from the neglect ancl supineness of did ' not
many years , number a subscriber to either charity , among its members . The exertions ancl example of a feiv brethren have , I am happy to say , brought about a very different state of affairs ; and this year , besides the Lodge annual subscription of two guineas to each of the four charities , we have amongst us tAvcnty-one annual subscribers to the Widows , and twenty-four to " he Mate Benevolent Fund . Last year we AA'cre respectively four and sixteen to the same funds .
Similar exertions throughout the country Avould soon place our charities in a position unequalled by any institutions of a like character . I remain , dear sir and Brother , yours fraternally , 'The W . M . of No . 45 .
Masonic Halls.
MASONIC HALLS .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIIU 10 R . SIR AND BROTHER , —I read with pleasure the letter of your correspondent , J . 0 . E ., " at p . lfil of the Magazine , on the subject of holdina <» ir Lodges at taverns ancl publichouses . It has long been my settled ' s 2
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Correspondence.
employed in other offices . Let that salary command as it ought to do the entire services of some Brother able and willing to devote his AA'hole time and all his energies to promoting the AA'cIfare of the Royal Benevolent Institution , I remain , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER .
[ Wo cannot altogether agree that it is the duty of the secretary to look after the gravel walks of the asylum , as AVC have a warden , who monthly makes a report to the committee , as to the state of the institution . With regard to the secretary ' s salary AA'e are not going to express any opinion ; but our correspondent is mistaken in supposing that the secretary of the Girls School is called upon to give up the whole of his time to the
interests of that institution—Bro . Crew being also the secretary of the Royal Caledonian Asylum , an office in whicli he gives as great satisfaction to the Governors as he does to the Governors of the Freemasons' Girls School . With regard to Bro . Moss , he , like Bro . Farnfield , also holds a situation in the Grand Secretary ' s office . —ED . ]
Masonic Charities.
MASONIC CHARITIES .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? TIIE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIUTlOn . DEAR SIK AND BROTHER , —Fully agreeing with the remarks in' your article on the late festival for the Annuity Funds , on the value and importance of the festivals to our several charities , may I , through your columns , remind the provincial brethren , that much may be clone by a persevering canvass in our several Lodges . Three years ago , our Lodge , just then emerging from the neglect ancl supineness of did ' not
many years , number a subscriber to either charity , among its members . The exertions ancl example of a feiv brethren have , I am happy to say , brought about a very different state of affairs ; and this year , besides the Lodge annual subscription of two guineas to each of the four charities , we have amongst us tAvcnty-one annual subscribers to the Widows , and twenty-four to " he Mate Benevolent Fund . Last year we AA'cre respectively four and sixteen to the same funds .
Similar exertions throughout the country Avould soon place our charities in a position unequalled by any institutions of a like character . I remain , dear sir and Brother , yours fraternally , 'The W . M . of No . 45 .
Masonic Halls.
MASONIC HALLS .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIIU 10 R . SIR AND BROTHER , —I read with pleasure the letter of your correspondent , J . 0 . E ., " at p . lfil of the Magazine , on the subject of holdina <» ir Lodges at taverns ancl publichouses . It has long been my settled ' s 2