MASONIC.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 26. The claim of the Scottish Masonic Grand Lodge to the right to erect new lodges is likely to lead to a serious rupture. _ This right was asserted some time ago, in connection with the proposed opening of a new lodge at Dunedin, and on this subject a strong resolution was passed by the New Zealand Grand Lodge at its recent meeting at Nelson. A communication, authorised the Board of General Purposes, m the event of the proposal being persisted in, to suspend fraternal relations with the Scottish Grand Lodge, and appeal to tne (-rand Lodge of England, and sister Grand Lodges. New Zealand freemasons claim if,at all that was conserved under the recognition was the existing rights of the Scottish Lodges, not rights thereafter to be created. NEW PLYMOUTH, November 26. A lodge of Scottish Masons was opened at Opunake on Saturday night by Mr William McCullough, of Auckland. The incident is causing some excitement in Masonic circles, as an act constituting an invasion of territory now exclusively controlled by the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, which is recognised as the only Grand Lodge competent to authorise-the opening of a new lodge.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2952, 26 November 1900, Page 3
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199MASONIC. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2952, 26 November 1900, Page 3
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