in 1910 the mirfield fathers sent a mission of help to new zealand, preaching and conducting retreats. miss mclean, who had met father fitzgerald in britain, arranged for him to meet members of the havelock prayer group, and he agreed to direct their spiritual work from britain. he instructed them in an esoteric approach to christianity, but soon decided they had reached a stage where personal instruction was necessary for further progress, and he recommended dr. robert felkin for the task. within a week the group had cabled £300 passage, supplied by maurice chambers and his father, mason, and his uncle john, for felkin, harriet and ethelwyn to visit new zealand for three months. during this visit in 1912 dr felkin established the smaragdum thallasses temple of the stella matutina. the new zealand order became known by the maori name of whare ra or "the house of the sun". foundations of the house at whare ra were laid down by the architect chapman-taylor, who later became a member of both the golden dawn and the order of the table round (ordo tabulae rotundae), a neo-arthurian mystical and chivalric order also brought to new zealand by felkin.