Master's Message

I bring you warm fraternal greetings from the Master, Officers, and Brethren of the Geyserland Daylight Lodge No. 462, New Zealand Constitution.

Our Daylight Lodge, formed in 1996, meets on alternate months from January each year, on the last Monday, with our Installation in the month of May.

Our Lodge is always very pleased to welcome any visitors from other Lodges should they be in Rotorua at any time, and perhaps one day we may have the pleasure of your company at one of our meetings.

Wives, Widows, and Partners are always welcome at our meetings with some sort of entertainment provided for the women in the Refectory while Brethren are in Lodge. At the close of lodge proceedings, the Brethren join the women for a combined afternoon tea in the Refectory. Socials and dinners with our women are also held from time to time which greatly helps the fraternal spirit in our Lodge.

Please, if you happen to be in the vicinity of Rotorua, get in touch with either the Master, Wardens, or Secretary, who will be able to advise you of a Lodge meeting in Rotorua. We are one of four Lodges in Rotorua, and there is normally at least one meeting each week that may suit you to visit. There are also meetings of The Royal Arch, Rose Croix and Secret Monitor, should you wish to attend their meetings.

Lodge Notices

We meet at the Rotorua Freemasons Centre, 1131 Fenton St (Lake End) on the last Monday of January, March, May, July, September and November at 1:30 pm. Ladies are welcomed and actively encouraged to attend.

We both tyle and welcome visitors at 1:30pm.

(Installation in May)

The Next Few Months

2012 Agenda.

30th Jan. In house . No visitors.

27th Feb. Lunch at Kwangchou restaurant.

26th March. Charges of choice by Geyserland Brethren

30th April. Lunch at Breakers.

28th May. Installation.

Lodge News

W Bro G Mather will be reinstalled as the Master of Geyserland Daylight Lodge No 462 on Monday 28th May 2012.

Bro G Mather was installed into the chair of Master of Geyserland Daylight Lodge No 462 on Monday 30th May 2011.

The installing officer was the Geyserland District District Grand Master, VW Bro K Allen, KL, accompanied by District Grand Lodge Officers.

Congratulations to Bro C J Peake for the November conferment of the Roll of Honour to him.

W Bro A Scott was presented with a 50 year badge by the District Grand Master, V W Bro T A Becker, at a ceremony during the regular meeting on Monday 26th July. The 50 years of service to Freemasons was acknowledged and thanked.

Explanation of our Logo

Designer L.S. (Lew) Vause, April 1996

Thinking, Learning, Working together in harmony for its worthy objectives is a truly masonic activity.

Geyserland Daylight Lodge 462 boldly states these objectives as part of its logo so that prospective members may gain an insight into the professed ideal of our freemasonry.

The boiling hot geyser is the rarest of the hidden mysteries of nature and its sciences. The Geyserland logo is symbolic of the deeper meanings of a substituted secret which is too sacred to depict except as an Altar representative of God,- or "Te Makawe."

To the untaught eye "Te Makawe" is a sacred volcanic stone hewn from a local quarry and "dedicated to our Earthly Guardian under divine protection." It overlooks the Maori village of Ohinemutu and is near to our Masonic lodge room.

To the craftsman mason, his eye is taught to see the perfect ashlar within the rough stone surface. He is taught to direct his life towards a perfecting of the six facets representative of harmony each with the other in respect of freemasonry.

Two fern fronds are founded in a common soil. The raised fronds meet the symbols of God within freemasonry.

100 years ago, W.Bro. Camille Malfroy practiced the art as a chief artisifer of metals, steam and the hot water geysers. As Mayor of Rotorua he engineered the concept of "Geyserland" as a developement of a grand plan for Rotorua Town. He is commemorated in our lodge meetings by the donation of the Masters chair.

Today another artificer engineers the Geyserland principles.