This address (and I prefer this term to lecture) is essentially a rounding off of the sesquicentennial or one hundred and fifty year celebration of Scinde Lodge. Many of you will have read the printed Historical Outline issued on our Birthday last October and I will not indulge in detail, which can be read there.
Among our few early records is the public notice that on the first Monday of February 1859 the first lodge meeting was to be held in the schoolhouse on the corner of Hastings and Tennyson Streets in Napier - hence the significance of today.
However, I want to widen the focus to include freemasonry in the whole of Hawke’s Bay and indeed East Coast districts in these formative years.
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2009 - SCINDE LODGE No 5 Its Origins and Development - Bro Owen Brown.
