JACK JOHNSON AND FREE MASONRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

JACK JOHNSON AND FREE MASONRY.

INITIATION NULL AND' VOID. SI Jack Johnson's initiation as a IYeen»»)t ffl is not, after all, to be accepted by tb» M Provincial Grand Lodge in Forfartb"» 'II Some time i ago Johnson was initiated as * II member of F. and K. Lodge, Dundee. N<W 9 a report on the matter has been issued W;j?:'H the Grand Lodge committee. The eomunV'.'H tee recommended "that, as the meeting a* ■ the lodge at which the initiation W* \ place was an illegal meeting, all the &#J done at that meeting be null and void. They also recommended that tho initiation of Jack Johnson be of no effect, and «** the lodge be directed to return the f«** v l|, paid by him. Further, it le ra;onunend<» that the lodge be asked to show ..<*»*» { why it should not be suspended, anfc. i-r-ffl Master and three of his Past Masters $$%$■ larly dealt with. The report has been &}} fore the Grand Committee of the Grand Lodge at Edinburgh and approved in eitey particular, and the recommendations «'• the sub-committee were adopted nW£|| mously. Interest now centres in the .<**" ciplinary recommendations affecting the ¥- and K. Lodge. A meeting of the Mm bers has been called to consider the report, and this part of it is likely to $ve rise to much discussion in Masonic J '^**|s4" Meantime, the Grand Lodge is much Per- .■ turbed over the leakage of information..:;;. It will be recalled that Johnson metered from Newcastle to attend the hun 4 fmM summoned daylight meeting at which hi* initiation was carried through. <~','' h ~,,, , i ii- : ■ ■ ,T '* : —