I would first like to read you an address given by M.W. Bro. Cuthbert H. Taylor, Grand Master of New Zealand in 1958/59, to the United Masters' Lodge No. 167 (Auckland) in 1959. I feel it is just as applicable today as it was then.
It is entitled "The Purposes Of A Research Lodge".
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1999 - INSTALLATION ADDRESS - Winds of Change - Bro. B. R. MacCONNELL.