Through the joint e:orts of the Editor and Bro. R. Pugh-Williams (especially of the latter) we have succeeded in solving the mystery of “First Antarctica Lodge No.777,mentioned in Bro. Pugh-Williams' paper “Freemasons, Aviators and the Air’ published in our Transactions Volume XVII No.1 for January 1973.
This has involved some very interesting research.
When the paper was submitted, it contained a reference to the above Lodge as “No 777 N.Z.C”.
I queried this as The Grand Lodge of New Zealand has so far chartered only 440 Lodges and this Lodge could not possibly be a Lodge under the New Zealand Constitution. Bro. Pugh-Williams agreed to the deletion of the words N.Z.C.” and this was accordingly done before printing.
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1973 - FIRST ANTARCTICA LODGE No.777 – A MASONIC MYSTERY SOLVED. - Bro Ross Hepburn.
