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RW DGM's Message for September 2003

"IN FRIENDLY COMMUNICATION"

On Saturday, the 23rd of August 2003, at Vijayawada, for the first time in more than a decade, I had the pleasure as your District Grand Master to participate in a Meeting of the Regional Grand Lodge of Southern India, at the invitation of my confrere R.W. Bro. Dr. B. Biswakumar, the Regional Grand Master. My deputation included Wor. Bro. Gopal Madhavan, D.G.J.W., Wor. Bro. D.G. Nayar, D.G. Treasurer, Wor. Bro. K.V. Srinivasan, D.G.Secretary, and of course Wor. Bro. B. Balaji Singh, D.G.D. of C.

We were warmly received, accommodated and made comfortable in every way by the indefatigable R.W.R.G.M. and his able team of organizers who were incredibly at the railway station from 4 a.m. onwards. More than 700 Brethren of the G.L.I. attended this Convocation, and were also very well looked after - quite a considerable achievement, particularly in the light of the numbers involved.

On behalf of our District, and the resumption of our inter-invitation, I presented a Silver Salver suitably inscribed to the RWRGM and his Region, on behalf of all our Brethren and our District. The inscription inter-alia said :

"Happy have We Met,
Happy may we Part;
and Happy meet again!!

I took the opportunity of stressing the fact that we believed in the practical necessities and manifestations of being in 'friendly communication', not only in gestures of this kind, but in active co-operation between our two Constitutions in many spheres. A particular reference was made by me to the excellent co-operation the RGM and I as the Trustees of the Freemasons' Hall Trust have so far achieved, and that indeed we could make the judicious joint management of that Property a powerful symbol of our co-operation, and one that would benefit the Brethren of all the Constitutions that use those premises. The RGM in his address, referred the distinct possibility of our co-operating in a charitable venture there which could also provide an income for the maintenance of that property.

Therefore I would like to commend 'friendly communication' as being the message for the month and indeed for all our future contacts with our G.L.I. Brethren, and of all the other Sister Constitutions.