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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17279, 21 September 1916, Page 8

Between 900 and iQQQ .members of the Masonic lodges of New Zealand are known to be in khaki. Decent mails from the front have brought particulars of an interesting meeting of the members of the craft held behind the fighting lino on June 21, at which more than ninety lodges in New Zealand were represented. Hie chair was taken by Major G. Barclay, of the Now Zealand Engineers, who belongs to the Railway Department in Auckland, and holds in the Grand Ledge of New Zealand the rank of past senior grand warden. At the meeting the following motion was carried unanimously:— “That this meeting of Freemasons, held somewhere in France, within a short distance of the enemy lines, within range of his guns, and composed of brethren serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, representing many lodges and the vajriourJ Constitutions in the Dominion, sends greetings to their brothers and best wishes for continued success of the various lodges.” The building in whicn ■the meeting was held was destroyed bv the enemy’s shell fire very soon after the dispersal of the gathering.