Complex sentence: While there where he was involved in local affairs: he was active in the development of their Institute, to which body he donated specimens and curios collected in the Northern Territory, and was a Past Master of the Mount Gambier Lodge of Freemasons.
Split into simpler sentences: While there where he was involved in local affairs; he was active in the development of their Institute, to which body he donated specimens and curios collected in the Northern Territory. He was a Past Master of the Mount Gambier Lodge of Freemasons.