MASONIC.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1891, Page 2

MASONIC.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Now that the views of our Bro. Earl Onslow with regard to the status of the New Zealand Grand Lodge are apparent, may I be allowed to state that many of tho more experienced of the New Zealand Masons, while they allowed the Lodges to pass the resolution asking His Lordship to acctept nomination of the Grand Mastership, yet considered the movement premature, for the reasons that ab present it would place him in a false position with tho English Grand Lodge, of which he is a Fast Warden ; secondly, that at present we require in this position a real, earnest believer in our Constitution like our present Grand Master (M.W. Bro. H. Thomson), who, by the zeal, ability, and discretion he has displayed since his appointment, has proved how eminently he is qualified to perform the important duties of the high oflice and warrant) his re-election. The brethren of the New Zealand Constitution must nou lot-get that there are many improvement •, ■ot to be worked out for the craft in t 'i t colony. We have had lately placed fci'b.ie the Lodges for their consideration a proposed Book of Constitution that, from its cc-m----prehenshePiit.'s, reflects the greatest credit' on i ( ;s compilers (Past Masters Hamerton, Gillon, and Robertson) ; yet while bhoy have given months of study to the subject, from the changes it would cause in binding the Constitution into a homogeneous one, would meet with bhe bibterest opposibion from those who, however benoficial they would prove to the craft, would consider them innovations, and consequently objectionable. No, brethren, the Now Zealand Constitution must be built up by those who have it at present in hand, and nob by converted opponentsconverted by reason of policy. We are making most satisfactory progress, and a. history repeats itself we may be sure ib will follow here, as ib did in New South Wales, thab the local lodges will absorb the bulk of the Masons and the lodges of tho other Constitution shrink into skeleton lodges, and then they will be only too glad to ask a brother of tho calibre of our late Brother Earl Carnarvon to complete the amalgamation.—l am, etc., Past Masteß.