North-West District 101

Newsletter No 31, November, 2010.

District Coordinator: V.Wor Bro. S.R. (Stan) Edelsten, PGIW, GLOrg.

Around the Lodges in November, 2010.

Tuesday 2nd Swan Hill 919 To Pass to 2° Bro Colin Taverna.

“ Cohuna 227 VMMA Trivia night (details page 2)
Thursday 4th Kerang 100 A paper by Wor Bro Ken Butler. In the South Mr Philip Davey from
Adams Funerals will talk on Funeral planning and Powers of Attorney
Monday 8 th Robinvale 684 Short meeting—Viewing Grand Lodge Membership Strategy Film.
Thursday 11th Cohuna 227 Balance of Investitures, 60 yr Jewel Pres. to W Bro George Rumble.
Tuesday 16th Border 466 To Pass to 2° Bro Peter L Sargent.
“ Mildura 170 Inspection for Accreditation
Thursday 18th Chisel 434 Wor Bro Neil Morse (Canberra) Freemasonry & the Armed Forces.
Monday 22nd Cast, Dnton 685 In the South—Mr Ian Mellier, Retired Toxicologist will give a talk on
Drugs and other addictions. .
Wednesday 24th Tresco 289 An interesting paper will be presented.

Many thanks to all who sent their Notices in a week early as requested, sincerely appreciated.

Neil

Have all members had the opportunity to view this DVD on the Membership
Strategy 2010-2013 recently distributed to Secretaries of all Lodges.
It is a very straight shooting assessment of the Order in today’s world.
Introduced by V Wor Bro Wes Turnbull, PGIW, it contains a forewords by MW
Bro Vaughan Werner, Grand Master, and Rt W Bro David George, G Supt Mem-
bership. The actual “Guts” of the DVD is the address given recently by Rt W Bro
Greg Godling, Asst G M (Queensland). He gives a straight from the shoulder
view of where we are and should be heeded by all Freemasons. He gives it in the
manner of Bro Bruce Ruxton in his heyday, remember he was the bloke who said
things we all thought. I notice Robinvale Lodge are arranging a viewing of this
for their next meeting. Having seen this I believe it should be shown to a mem-
bers group under good conditions, (on a large screen or projector) where it can be
openly discussed by all members. Actually, I would suggest that a social evening with ladies present could be the go!

To keep you informed of happenings in our District.

News and Notices to n.lvg@optusnet.com.au
before last weekend each month, please!
 North-West District 101

Newsletter No 31, November, 2010.

District Coordinator: V.Wor Bro. S.R. (Stan) Edelsten, PGIW, GLOrg.

Tresco 289 Installation, Saturday 23 October.

The Ceremony of Installation of Wor Bro John
Murphy and Investiture of his Officers on this
occasion was performed by RT Wor Bro Jim
Thompson, PSGW. V Wor Bro Greg Hall PGIW
was Proclaiming Officer.
The team comprised district Grand Officers, Past
Masters and 2 Worshipful Masters.
Around 50 sat down for the Banquet in the South
which was catered for by Woorinen Ladies was
excellent and appreciated by all.
The Toast to Grand Lodge was given by Wor Bro
John Murphy and responded to by Rt Wor Bro
Thompson.
Rt Wor Bro Thompson Proposed the Toast to the
Worshipful Master who suitably responded.
Welcome to Visitors was given by Wor Bro Mi-
chael Phelan, JW, and responded to by Wor Bro
Noel Gilbee. A great night was had by all.
All would be aware that as from November 2 all
Installations will be carried out by a Grand Lodge
Team, Past Grand Lodge Team of up to 3 years
previous, or an Approved Installing Team which
will hold approval for 3 years.
The members of the Tresco installing team will
form part of the Mid Murray Team with several
more to be added.
Possibly it could be mentioned that Rt Wor Bro Thompson
could have been ‘polishing up his skills’ for a proud eve-
ning on Tuesday 26 when he Installs his son Ian into the
Chair of Orana 836 meeting in Greensborough

VMMA & Cohuna Lodge—

Lodge—Trivia Night!
Tuesday November 2.
Cohuna Hotel… 7.30 PM.
Entry $5.00 per head, come & enjoy the fun and support a worthy cause
All proceeds go to Cystic Fibrosis

To keep you informed of happenings in our District.

News and Notices to n.lvg@optusnet.com.au
before last weekend each month, please!