Following the outbreak of war several committees were formed to raise funds for the war effort. The members of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New Zealand formed a fundraising committee. ...
Harry Sutherland was the 2nd of 8 children of William Sutherland (formally Paganini) and Martha Matilda Sutherland (nee Burley). He was born in the settlement of Blue Spur near Lawrence on 31st...
In May 1915 a torpedo launched from a German U-boat struck the British luxury liner, the Lusitania. Germany had declared the waters around the British Isles a war zone in response to a British...