NEW FREEMASONS' HOSPITAL.
OPENING BY THE KING. FINE BUILDING AT HAMMERSMITH. {critish orrroiAC. ivihelbss.) (Received July 13, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 12. His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Queen and attended by the Home Secretary (Sir John Gilmour), drove from Buckingham Palace this afternoon to open the new Freemasons' Hospital at Hammersmith. The King's uncic, the Duke of Connaught, Grand Master of the order, received their Majesties on their arrival. The hospital was first projected 20 years ago, but its completion was delayed by the war. After a brief service, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the King, in opening the hospital, said: "This fine building, so admirably situated and planned to give patients the benefits of sunshine and fresh air, is a worthy realisation of your hopes, and cannot fail to bring comfort and help to Freemasons and their families. I now declare it open, and pray that, with Gods blessing, withto its walls may be found relief suffering and restoration to heaS^"
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 11
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