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Brother Grumpy’s
Happening soon in Southland
27 August 2017 Brother Grumpy (VWBro.M.I.McGregor) at [email protected]
Lodge Secretaries, please email your Notice Paper to the above email address.
ALL MEETINGS ARE REGULAR MEETINGS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
Quick Reference Calendar for Southland District No.33 and selected neighbours date time lodge event place
2 Sept 100th Birthday of W.Bro. Wally Price and Bro.Grumpy 75
4 Sept 8.00 pm Switzers 223 Lecture?Explanation Waikaia
5 Sept 7.30 pm Winton 108 Raise – Bro. C.Findlater Tyled Formal Winton
6 Sept 7.30 pm Remembrance 318/Research 415 ANZMRC Lecture Invercargill
6 Sept 7.30 pm Hercules 36 First Degree Tracing Board Tapanui
26 Sept 7.30 pm Hiram 46 Third Degree exemplification Dunedin
The Lodge of Remembrance No.318
Presents
The ANZMRC 2017 Lecture Tour – featured Lectures for 2017 This Lecture will be hosted by The Lodge of Remembrance No.318
The audio/visual Lecture will take place following the regular meeting of the Lodge of Remembrance No.318
Lecture arranged by The Research Lodge of Southland No.415
Founded by ANZAC POW’s
also
Both lectures by
W.Bro. John Belton (UGLE) ANZMRC 2017 Touring Lecturer
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Southland Masonic Centre, 80 Forth Street, Invercargill Partners and non-Masons welcome to the Lecture
Dress formal for Masons
W.Bro.Belton’s tour book - “A Questioning Eye Upon Freemasonry” Will be available for purchase at the meeting for $30 per copy.
Strictly cash or cheque purchase NO IOU – NO PAY NO GET – but can be ordered pre or post meeting
For further information, please contact:- V.W.Bro.Martin McGregor 03 217 9038 or [email protected]
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Monday 4 September 2017 8.00 pm
Masonic Hall, Waikaia
Lodge Winton No.108
To Raise
Bro.Callum Findlater To the Sublime Degree of Master Mason
By the Worshipful Master and Brethren of the Lodge
Tuesday 5 September 2017 7.30 pm
Masonic Hall, Winton
The Hercules Lodge No.36
Explanation of the
First Degree Tracing Board
Wednesday 6 September 2017 7.30 p.m.
Masonic Hall, Tapanui
The ANZMRC Lecture Tour – featured Lectures for 2017
Also another lecture
by
W.Bro. John Belton (UGLE) ANZMRC Touring Lecturer
Thursday 7 September 2017 7.30 pm
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Masonic Centre, Manor Place, Dunedin
Lodge Celtic No. 477 (SC)
Saturday 16 September 2017 The re-dedication meeting at 2pm
The dinner $40 pp Partners welcome To register contact Bruce on [email protected] to request registration form
Masonic Hall, Manor Place, Dunedin
The Hiram Lodge No.46
Exemplification of the
Third Degree
Tuesday 26 September 2017 7.30 pm
Masonic Centre, Manor Place, Dunedin
SOUTHLAND MASONIC CENTRE
Contact details
Building Ph: 03 2183392 Maree’s Cell Ph: +64 20 41448263
E-Mail:- [email protected] Postal address
Invercargill Masonic Heritage Building Charitable Trust 80 Forth St. P.O.Box 86
Invercargill 9810
Lodge Secretaries – click on the following link to watch a video on how to enter information on the Southern Division web site:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-bAxxtiUNA
Click on the attached link to watch the Grand Master’s recent TV interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hScdIoH8F0
NEW MASTER MASONS – ENTRY LEVEL MEMBERSHIP
The Research Lodge of Southland has an Entry Level Membership Category for new Master Masons. A Brother who has been a Master Mason for less than 5 years from the date of his Initiation can join the Research Lodge of Southland (no entry fee) and enjoy the privileges of membership (except for holding office) for 5 years at a fixed rate of dues of $20 per year.
Contact VWBro.Martin McGregor. [email protected] Phone: 03 217 9038
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Masonic Education Builds > Masonic Retention > Masonic Understanding
The First Degree Catechism is almost complete. It will be issued to Southland lodges soon.
A new paper on ‘The Point within a Circle’ Copies of the paper is available via email. Contact V.W.Bro.McGregor
V.W.Bro.M.I.McGregor. Southland District Education Advisor. [email protected] – gets you to the Southland Masonic Education HUB.
Masonic Knowledge
THE DIGITAL MENTOR - A SOUTHLAND DISTRICT MASONIC EDUCATION HUB PUBLICATION
Available now:-
VEDA 1 – The Point within a Circle VEDA 2 - TEMPLE
MASONIC WEB SITES
To seek for that which can be found
Left click anywhere on link address, then Ctrl + click to follow link Masonic web sites with useful information, papers, and further web links
ONLY REALLY USEFUL SITES ARE LISTED (If you reach a site using your default browser or link, you can place a shortcut on your home wallpaper if you
wish. Right click on page – select ‘Create Shortcut’ – left click and confirm.) This is a directory in progress – keep looking for additions
Many thanks to those Brethren who have emailed suggestions
Freemasons New Zealand http://freemasonsnz.org/ Grand Lodge NZ Education Pillar http://www.themasons.org.nz/div/educationpillar.php Southern Division website http://www.themasons.org.nz/sdiv Freemasons New Zealand Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nzfreemasons/ NEW Partners in Freemasonry (GLNZ) Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/partnersinfreemasonry/ NEW Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council -ANZMRC http://www.anzmrc.org/ Grand Lodge of Ireland http://www.freemason.ie Grand Lodge of Scotland: http://www.grandlodgescotland.com/ Unfortunately, the United Grand Lodge of England web site is not fruitful Masonic Info http://www.masonicinfo.com/ (Excellent Masonic site with much about anti-masonry) Freemasonry 101 http://freemasonry-101.com/ Masonic Dictionary http://www.masonicdictionary.com/ Masonic Lodge of Education http://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/ Freemasons-Freemasonry http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ (This is the famous Pietre-Stones web site – arguably the world’s best Masonic web site) Freemasonry.fm http://www.freemasonry.fm/ Masonic Awareness at the Speed of Light- MATSOL http://www.matsol.info/ Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/ Lewis Masonic (publishers) Videos http://www.lewismasonic.co.uk/ Masonic Lodge Info http://www.masonic-lodge.info/ The Masonic Trowel http://www.themasonictrowel.com/ University of Bradford – Web of Hiram http://www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/ Superb Phoenix Masonry http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/
Linford Lodge of Research http://www.linfordresearch.info/ York Rite http://www.yorkrite.com/
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Mason Smart http://www.masonsmart.com/ Freemasonry Today magazine http://www.freemasonrytoday.com/ (UGLE: view back issues) MQ Magazine http://www.mqmagazine.co.uk/ (back issues) Centro Ibérico de Estudios Masónicos http://www.cienmas.org/ Spanish site in English Masonic Source Book http://www.masonicsourcebook.com/ DMOZ https://www.dmoz.org/ Links only Southern California Lodge of Research http://www.theresearchlodge.org/ The Masons http://www.themasons.org.nz Lodge Devotion No.723 (GVic) http://www.lodgedevotion.net (excellent ANZAC site) NEW Lodge St.Patrick No.468 (IC) http://www.lodgestpatrick.co.nz NEW Paul M Bessel’s Homepage http://bessel.org/homepage.htm NEW Famous site Masonic Encyclopedia http://masonicencyclopedia.com/ NEW Masonic Library and Museum Association http://www.masoniclibraries.org/ NEW Masonic Service Association of North America http://www.msana.com NEW Freemasonry Matters http://www.thefraternity.info NEW Stitching Argus http://www.stichtingargus.nl NEW Treasure trove of – fraternities –rituals
GENERAL REFERENCE Internet Sacred Text Archive http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm NEW Huge collection Jerusalem 101 http://www.generationword.com/jerusalem101.html NEW Jewish Encyclopaedia http://jewishencyclopedia.com/ NEW
REGALIA Regalia Supplies NZ http://www.regaliasupplies.co.nz/ NEW Masonic Exchange NZ http://www.masonicexchange.co.nz/ NEW Robert Embroideries NZ http://www.robertembroideries.co.nz/masonic-regalia.html NEW Masonic Supply Shop US http://www.masonicsupplyshop.com/ NEW
GET TO KNOW YOURSELF Keirsey Temperament Sorter http://www.keirsey.com/ Personality test NEW Typology Central http://www.typologycentral.com/ NEW Brainmetrix http://www.brainmetrix.com/ IQ Test NEW Ihhp http://www.ihhp.com/ Emotional intelligence NEW Help Yourself http://www.helpself.com/ Cognitive intelligence NEW McGraw Hill education https://highered.mheducation.com/ Links, etc. NEW Queendom tests https://www.queendom.com/tests/index.htm NEW IQ Test. Com http://iqtest.com/ NEW Self growth http://www.selfgrowth.com/ Links NEW
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Only the rich could fight
The ancient Greeks and Macedonians were famous for their phalanx battle formation. This consisted of a huge mass of men of around 250 men, sixteen rows deep. The phalanx could be formed into a triangular wedge formation, but generally it was formed into a huge rectangular block. Every man carried a huge thrusting spear. In the early days they used the dory, a spear which was six to ten feet long, with a tip at both ends. Under the Macedonians, the spear developed into the sarissa, spear which was twelve to eighteen feet long.
The word phalanx means ‘roller’ and refers to the simple phalanx technique, which was to simply overwhelm the enemy by the momentum of a huge mass of men, advancing behind an impenetrable wall of spear tips – rolling over the top of the enemy. Centuries later, the Scots and the Swiss used similar formations to defeat armoured cavalry using the pike, a similar weapon to the dory and sarissa.
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The soldiers who made up the phalanx were called hoplites, referring to their round shield, the hopla, which they carried into battle strapped to their arms. These hoplites were heavily armoured. Their bronze helmets enclosed the entire head apart from a T-shaped cut-out at the front. The helmets had a large crest. The hoplite’s upper torso was protected by a bronze breastplate and backplate, extending from the neck to the navel, but their arms were bare and unprotected. Below the navel they were covered only by the lower part of their tunics, extending only to just below the buttocks, often leaving their private parts exposed, as the Greeks were fond of depicting on their murals and pottery paintings. The upper leg was unprotected, but their knees and lower legs were protected by bronze grieves, a metal sheath. They wore sandals on their feet. As well as their spear and shield, the hoplites carried a short sword called a xiphos, which could be used for stabbing and slashing.
It goes almost without saying that this panoply of armour and weaponry was very expensive and, as the hoplites were expected to pay for their own gear, only the rich could afford to fight as a hoplite. In the early days, the Romans used the phalanx formation and were similarly equipped to the Greeks and, likewise, only wealthy Romans could afford the armour and weapons. However, the Romans conflicts with the Celts, or Gauls, caused them to change their tactics and their equipment, often copying those of the enemy. As to why, can be gleaned from how the Celts overcame the phalanx.
One of the problems with the phalanx form of fighting was that it was designed for frontal fighting consisting of one mighty, continuous push of spears until the enemy broke. However, the phalanx was vulnerable to flank attacks and to enemy archery fire. When Alexander’s army entered India they were attacked by armies that had many archers, many of them firing from atop elephants, and things began to look bleak for the Greeks. If the Celts had used massed archers against the Greeks and Romans, history would have turned out very differently, but they didn’t. They did, however, come up with a breathtakingly simple technique for defeating the phalanx. The Celts realized that the phalanx could respond to flank attacks but it was a complicated and time consuming process which could easily end up a shambles.
Many large Celtic tribes lived in the Balkans, to the north of the Macedonians, on the other side of the Danube. They had been on good terms with the Macedonians and Alexander in particular, but in the years following Alexander’s death they found themselves in need of more land to accommodate their burgeoning population. Having identified some suitable land, in 279BC, the Celts sent ambassadors to Alexander’s successor Ptolemy Keraunos, a murdering swine of a man, with a request for permission for their people to settle south of the Danube. Ptolemy Keraunos had the ambassadors killed. The outraged Celts elected a leader by the name of Bolgios to be what was effectively ‘supreme commander.’ The Celts attacked with three armies moving south in parallel, one of which, that commanded by Bolgios himself, came up against the main Macedonian army, commanded by Ptolemy Keraunos, in full phalanx formation.
The Celtic technique was simple. They used their long slashing swords and axes to break off the spear tips and then, grabbing hold of the spear shafts, forced their way between the spears until they reached the unfortunate hoplites at the end of it. The rear ranks could not respond in time and the phalanx was plunged into chaos. Ptolemy Keraunos was captured by the Celts and beheaded.
Southland Freemasons who served in WWI
Includes Lodges that were once in the Southland Masonic Province or in close Fraternal relations with it Men who joined a Lodge post-war are not included. Lodges formed post-war but may have had members who were war veterans are not included. Southern Cross 9, Invercargill Thomas Belworthy Not known Sydney Clark 61204 Frederick Eli Hitchon Cooke 2/835 14/10/1916 Killed in action John Dall Donaldson 73776 William Alexander Hay 42661 George Kelly WW1 Reserve rolls 1916 John Alexander Mackenzie 8/1012
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Robert McKay 46768 John Alexander McKenzie 72307 Ernest Duncan McRae 9/327 James William Allan Prentice 3/3471 Charles Wright 9/1378 Hercules No.36, Tapanui David Dickie Cleghorn 56905 25/11/1917 killed in action Duncan Colquhoun DSO 8/1174 Robert Drummond 10/1473 19/09/1916 killed in action David Darcy Dun 8/2812 Alfred Joseph Freeman 31200 Charles Vere Kirke 15187 James Norman McKenzie 9/1328 John Dewar Munro 9/180 James Andrew Thompson 34994 Harvey No.49, Gore William Barnett 45059 Also 63 Edmund Robert Bowler 11/111; 15/111 James Andrew Brown 3/3222 George Gilmore Campbell William Dickson 9/1278 Harold Herbert Francis Grant 3/3456 Alfred Fitchet Grenfell 9/536 Alexander Hardie 18/35 William McAra 3/529 Alexander McKay 8/1299 Also 145 Joseph McTaggart 39297 8/10/1917 Killed in action John A. McTaggart 8/2685 Mokoreta No.63, Wyndham William Barnett 45059 Also 49 Alexander Branigan 11210 16/04/1918 Killed in action Home service Andrew Crosbie 61216 Albert Duffey 13/2280 12/10/1918 Died of sickness Charles Keay 5/193 Charles Walter Potts 12/3446 17/09/1916 killed in action Stanley Rice 16/1023 Frank Russell 54707 Herbert Smith 4/1063 Gavin Warnock 65163 William James Hastings Wilson 52825 Fortitude No.64, Bluff Henry Livingston Chandler 8/2872 Charles Ernest Giles 11173 Donald Cameron Hamilton 3/3778 George Harwood 19/109 William Alexander Knowles 8/2965 James William Leggat 59020 Donald Matheson WW1 Reserve rolls 1916 Benjamin Ward 24945 Aparima No.77, Riverton Arthur Ernest Alexander 4/528 James Armstead 26737 1954 George Robert Berndtson 17748
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Hubert Henry Brown Colin Huntley Gordon 7/1327 Patrick John Keady 9/302 Andrew Allen McNeill 39294 Sydney William Mills 35917 30/03/1918 Also 82 Killed in action Hoani Tame Parata 62812 Holwell Wensley Spear 65 Lake Lodge of Ophir No.85, Queenstown John Bartlett Aitken 56892 1963 John Robertson Henderson 58870 James Alfred Jacobson 42669 Andrew Mowat Manson 56938 3/12/1917 Killed in action Walter Michael McKenzie 8/80 9/08/1915 Killed in action Edward Sainsbury 11345 4/01/1918 Died of wounds in NZ Arrow Kilwinning No.86, Arrowtown Theodore Francis Bowden 41963 Alexander Hanton 37559 Robert McDowall WW1 reserve rolls William McKibbin 63389 5/10/1918 Died of disease Edgar Thomson Shand 9/2027 Adam Smith 46798 Charles Smith 8/4221 John Smith 8/4222 11/06/1917 Died of wounds William Henry Thompson 53283 St. John No.94, Invercargill Orlando Percival Bastings 10/1126 David Craig 68939 Hector William Fallow 8/3253 Also 189 James Albert Newton Hanan 8/403 Orlando Percival Hastings George Kimber 6/4080 27/12/1917 Also 93 Died of wounds William Richardson Mayhew 17662 William Charles Sefton Moorhouse DCM 29833 Edgar Seymour Perry 9/661 21/08/1915 Also 189 Killed in action George Mitchell Prentice 29855 Albert Sidney Reid 25/66 29/11/1917 Killed in action Alfred Graham Reid 55087 Wilfred Dalton Shelton 8/3069 John B Thomson WW1 Reserve Rolls 1917 John Thorn 59077 Thomas Watson 45158 12/10/1917 Killed in action Alfred Coutts Willis WW1 Reserve Rolls 1916 Taringatura No.100, Lumsden Archibald Allan 27416 1953 James Alexander Butler 61187 John Chartres 51335 William Chartres 53143 Also 489 SC Robert Douglas Christie 1/422 Roger Black Church 54117 Robert Fairmaid Hayles 13915 Robert Fairmaid Hayles 13915 Alexander McAlister 65115 Eric Thomas McCurdy 45112 James Murray Menzies 8/1087 George Scott 5/91
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George Ewan Soutar 7/1525 Dunstan No.103, Clyde John Edward 103 Clyde William Buckingham Gardner 34659 William Blair Mills 72184 Wallace No.129, Otautau Richard William Russon Bradley 17617 John Thomas Clark 27467 John Porteous Fisher 5/843 William Flett 18980 7/06/1917 Killed in action John Thomas Gibson 49887 3/12/1917 Killed in action William Frederick Greig 18992 John Frederick Hazlett 53189 Harold Judge 7/1694 Fraser McIntosh MC 44195 Hugh Gordon Sproat 23/1194 Ernest Walter Sutton 23/1207 James Galbraith Wade 67929 Orepuki No.137, Orepuki Leonard Grey 31992 James Kerse 27521 Henry James Turner MSM 8/3778 4/06/1918 Killed in action Wairaki No.145 Nightcaps James Hamilton 13910 Stewart Dawson Low 12/3081 Also 49 Alexander McKay 8/1299 Arthur William Innes Miller 34967 John Prentice 4/1580 Walter Percival Quested 8/769 Benjamin John Stroud 75410 Victoria No.147 Invercargill Roland Llewellyn Armit 26/49 15/09/1916 Died of wounds Thomas Battersby 32804 George Henry Clark 45070 Albert Edward Fraser 8/2916 Magnus Fraser 45318 9/01/1919 Died of wounds William Fraser 9/142 George Ernest Glen 59000 Leonard Carswell Hanan 3/2641 Archie Little Howie 8/1264 Charles King 42672 30/08/1918 Killed in action Julius Henry Leigh 73794 James Lindsay 6/3380 Charles James McEachran 71069 Alexander Douglas McGavock 59029 Sidney George Perkins 32892 Peter Reynolds 68993 William Rodie 3/716 Charles George Sidford 50338 Walter Garfield Spite 13112 Arnold Gibson Storrie 29879 William Thomson WW1 reserve rolls Peter Stewart Wilson 56969
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Waikaka 151, Waikaka Arthur William Brosnan 45060 12/10/1917 Killed in action William Caughey 46686 Thomas Ford 5/584 15/03/1918 died of disease George Alexander Lamb 8/2035 27/09/1916 Killed in action Angus Neil Matheson 51407 William James Tripp 17840 Andrew Walker 9/94 Mataura 174, Mataura William Walter Brown 50002 William Carson Paterson 53260 James Stewart 29946 Clinton 183, Clinton Arthur Harry Charlton 45312 3/02/1918 Killed in action Thomas Graham 69024 5/10/1918 Killed in action John Rankin 10384 Albert Schenck 4/1635 John Robert Sheddan 49204 Douglas Robert Wallace 24/1512 Also 175 15/09/1916 Killed in action Waihopai No. 189, Invercargill William Moody Bell 57301 Also 58 Thomas Belworthy Not known Also 9 Thomas Walter Brandford 33177 John Daniel Campbell 58707 Leonard James Bancroft Chapple 39792 John Alfred Cushen 45307 Also 94 Hector William Fallow 8/3253 Norman Douglas Gilchrist 2/2421 Wallace Watson King 41142 Stanley Morell Macalister WW1 reserve rolls George Gibb Menzies 6/916 Edgar Seymour Perry 9/661 Also 94 21/08/1915 Killed in action John Alexander Pottinger 3/1349 Frederick James William Stewart 6/1174 William Thomson 23482 Lodge not known Kennington, Southland. John Henry Dawson 42633 12/10/1917 Killed in action Compiled by V.W.Bro.M.I.McGregor, PGLec. August 2017. From list compiled by the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.
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✠ For information about the
Southland Preceptory No.6 of the Masonic Knights Templar, including qualifications for joining, Contact:-
Em.Kt.M.I.McGregor. Secretary Phone: 03 217 9038 Email: [email protected]
For the
Otago Priory No.1 Rt.Em.Kt.G.R.Watson. District Grand Prior. Secretary
Phone: 03 454 2533 Email: [email protected]
