As announced by Lord Sandhurst at his farewell banquet, Lord Northcote was installed as Pro. District Grand Master in March 1900.

A Special Communication was held in December 1900 at Karachi presided over by Lord Northcote. An Address was presented to him by Scottish Lodges as their Grand Master Designate of ASFI.

At the November 1903 Communication presided by the Dy.DGM WBro. G.O.W. Dunn referred to the departure of Lord Northcote from India to take up the office of Governor General of Australia and the appointment of WBro. Sir Lawrence Jenkins Chief Justice of Bombay as DGM.

WBro. Dunn also related that he had given a ruling on the proper mode of taking a ballot. He held that when the ballot box contained two compartments one mark ‘AYE’ on the other ‘NAY’, balls of only one colour should be used, but when a box of one compartment only was used both black and white ball should be provided. The Worshipful Master should clearly instruct the brethren how they were to be used. He also held that the terms ‘Black Balls’ used in Bye Laws and Constitutions must be taken not merely to refer to the colour, but to balls placed in the ‘NAY’ compartment of a double compartment box where balls of only one colour are used.