Wonderful piece. Looks like we've read many of the same books, have some of the same, and been looking at much of the same material. I want to spend time (years?) in your library. Have you examined the Knights Hospitalliers (https://www.orderofmalta.int/). I think they're even more snr. than the Freemasons. They're here too. I know because I found the cape of my ex-wife's father, well after he died, in her possession. This man. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/31441740
BTW I used to work with Tony Simpson (advisor to Jim Anderton).
On a complete tangent, I thought this was a very interesting (and markedly different) old map of NZ (the so-called Yate's map). Supposedly made after Cook's map. Note the "Lake of Green Stone" is (about) exactly where significant gold mining is going on (https://oceanagold.com/operation/macraes/).
The Hospitalliers appear to be the first of the militant, religions and civil orders. (see: The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders by Desmond Seward). I haven't examined the Knights Hospitalliers in any depth. There is a book titled The Order of St John in New Zealand (Rex E. Wright-St Clair M.D., 1977), with his foreword written from Waikato Hospital, a Knight of St John). The Prior is headed by the Governor-General. At least 3 of the six board members are members of Order of St John, as I undestand it. Thnx for these website links!!
Wonderful piece. Looks like we've read many of the same books, have some of the same, and been looking at much of the same material. I want to spend time (years?) in your library. Have you examined the Knights Hospitalliers (https://www.orderofmalta.int/). I think they're even more snr. than the Freemasons. They're here too. I know because I found the cape of my ex-wife's father, well after he died, in her possession. This man. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/31441740
The Rothschilds' 1875 loan is also discussed here https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/books/ALMA1886-9917502413502836-An-historical-sketch-of-New-Zeald
BTW I used to work with Tony Simpson (advisor to Jim Anderton).
On a complete tangent, I thought this was a very interesting (and markedly different) old map of NZ (the so-called Yate's map). Supposedly made after Cook's map. Note the "Lake of Green Stone" is (about) exactly where significant gold mining is going on (https://oceanagold.com/operation/macraes/).
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/1414
The Hospitalliers appear to be the first of the militant, religions and civil orders. (see: The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders by Desmond Seward). I haven't examined the Knights Hospitalliers in any depth. There is a book titled The Order of St John in New Zealand (Rex E. Wright-St Clair M.D., 1977), with his foreword written from Waikato Hospital, a Knight of St John). The Prior is headed by the Governor-General. At least 3 of the six board members are members of Order of St John, as I undestand it. Thnx for these website links!!