LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 9

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 1.

Colonel K. G. Milligan, who is in London on business in connection with the Martha Gold Mining Company (WaihiV Limited, and the Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company, Limited, leaves on June 10 by the Strathaird for New Zealand.

The Grand Festival of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons was held on Tuesday at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street. Lord Stradbroke, Pro Grand Master, presided, supported by Canon Frederick Halsey, Deputy Grand Master.' The Duke of Connaught was proclaimed Grand Master for the thirty-eighth year in succession. Among appointments made was that of Mr. J. A. Messenger (Auckland) as Grand Senior Deacon.

I Lieutenant H. G. A. Lewis, R.N., has been appointed to fill the position :0 be vacated on H.M.S. Philomel when Lieutenant P. R. W. McMaster returns to England. Lieutenant Lewis sails 'for New Zealand by the Rangitane on July 21. At present he is on board H.M.S. Hyperion.

Mr. Harold M. Ford, commercial manager of the Clyde Navigation Trust, Glasgow, has intimated his resignation, to take effect from the end of this month. Mr. Ford went to Glasgow in 1925 as secretary of the trust, a position which he held until 1930 when, on the creation of a trade development department, he was appointed commercial manager.. In 1923 he went on a trade mission to Australia and New Zealand, and pointed out the advantages of Glasgow as a port for the distribution of Dominion produce. He also went to South Afls*