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Particularly noticeable at this period was the need to vary the dates of regular meetings because most of the Brethren were away on field training. The Minute Book is much ‘expanded’ with the relevant Dispensations from District Grand Lodge.

The Lodge decided to qualify as a Hall Stone Lodge by subscribing ten guineas from each full member and five from each absent member to the Memorial Fund which built Freemasons’ Hall, London. (Hazara was the first Lodge in the Punjab to take this step and the District Grand Master’s addresses in following years made much of this, pointing out...

This year was, unfortunately, marked by the failure of the Alliance Bank who were custodians of the Lodge funds. Hazara bravely faced this set-back and before long were in the clear again.

The Foundation Stone of the Masonic Hall was laid on 13th May under Scottish auspices. Many of the Brethren, including all the principal officers, who performed the ceremony on behalf of the Grand Lodge of All Scottish Freemasonry in India were, or became, members of Hazara Lodge. The building was quickly completed and Hazara moved in on 7th August.

The Racquets Court, despite black curtains and braziers, proved to be a very chilly place of assembly in winter and the Lodge moved in January to a cottage in the grounds of a local bungalow.

Many emergency meetings were required, in addition to the monthly regular convocations, to deal with the influx of candidates.

On Saturday 16th October, 1920,  the Hazara Lodge No.  4159 E.C.  was consecrated at Abbottabad in, of all places,  the Racquets  Court!  The printed program anticipated that W.Bro: Colonel H. W.R. Senior, C.IE., D.S.O.,  P.Dep.D.G.M (Burma), P.D.G.W. (Bombay.) would carry out the ceremony on behalf of the District Grand Master of the Punjab but, for reasons not recorded, he did...