FREEMASONS' TEMPLE
MESSAGE FROM THE KING DEDICATION OF BUILDING LONDON, July 18 In reply to a telegram conveying loyal greetings from the gathering of 6000 Freemasons at the dedication of the Masonic Peace Memorial, the King expressed the hope that the Temple "may stand for a memorial to that spirit of comradeship which unites Freemasons to-day in remembering that their brethren who made the supremo sacrifice in the Great War should never be forgotten." The movement brought to a completion by to-day's ceremony was initiated in 1919 —the day before the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. It was decided that £1,000,00*3 should be raised for the building and endowment of tho structure, and that sum was obtained by voluntary subscription. . Tho foundation-stone was laid by the Duke of Connaught six years ago. The grand master dedicated the building "to Freemasonry, to virtue, and to universal benevolence."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 9
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