A Mass Of Masonry

NZ Truth, Issue 889, 9 December 1922, Page 1

A Mass Of Masonry

w j^.Hsssshh! "Truth".. wants to talk :j ab,out Freemasonry— but not too free- \\ ly nor loudly. Somehow, or another y ilasons nowadays don't like to get :| Jhto print as t.hey used to, even I though they have an organ of their t| own. Or is it that Masonic news is "* kept as a monopoly for the "CraftSr § finan"? Well, we are 'on' safe ground | phis time, for much publicity has been if given the annual meeting of the down m Christchurch, where «'a record gathering took, place, the |'.Btar attraction (as the picture shows have it) being the enthronement of l "Admiral Jelltcoe as' G.M!: He is a ft very young Mb son. .He has been I "made" only since he came to New V Zealand. He became a Master Mason sv;: at the new lodge out at Island Bay. V" His rapid promotion to the Q.M'ship C;. reminds us of the record put up by Seddon, who was non persona ■%rata with the Masons who. pulled the '■Grand Lodge strings- in those days, by Sir 'Francis Bell, whose word was law then— and who is never 'consulted nowadays. ' It -.was the (breaking of , the, old order of Conserr ■ vatlvism m the Mystic -Order- by ; Democrat Dick Seddon, that has made /'Masonry the very popular craft it undoubtedly is to-day. They don't know where to put all the inemberß - ottering, nnd/over 2000 additions have fcbeen made during the past year. The for office m the lodgea all over j--- :: the land is further evidence of Its v--.Ofvioou»s«J k ftlL4hig. comKment is. anathema to the Mason. He |;j- lives m an atmosphere of Hsssshh! £'No one outside the Mystic Circle must f know who Js the» Master of the lodge fr nor who the Outer Guard. But it is jf so rave and high an honor for a Lord p. High Admiral of the Fleet' to become i New Zealand's G.M. that the common £ people Simply Had to Be Told About T It. When is Bill Massey 1 becoming r. G.M.? Wo notice that the Hon. H. L. = : Mitchel, M.L.C., is pro-G.M. That is I • anbther . tribute .' to the Vyjld West--3 -Coast, and an indication' |tfiat it has \' become ' tamed. LoM .^Bllicoe re- \ ferred to democracy vdfv Masonry. h It can be likened to the Masonry of r* Bpwling m New Zealand. . -Tom, Dick, •i. and Harry, the tinker|, * iailor and butcher, the man, who resides on The Terrace an;lhe who works m Lower I, Taranaki Street— they all fraternise i tfi our Masonic lodges.