The Manawatu Freemason

  Bro Sir Malcolm Campbell. 1885 - 1948 Bro Sir Malcolm Campbell was born in Chislehurst, London on the 11th March 1885, and is a famed British motor racing driver and motoring journalist.  He is famous for being the first to break the land speed record in 1924 at 146.16 mph at Pendine Sands near Carmarthen Bay on the South Coast of Wales, driving a 350 horsepower V12 Sunbeam (now on display at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu).  Between 1924 and 1935 he broke nine land speed records.  He set his final record at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Utah USA on the 3rd September 1935 and was the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.  Bro Campbell also set the water speed record four times, his highest speed being 141.740 mph in the Blue Bird K4 on the 19th August 1939.  Bro Campbell was initiated into Freemasonry on the 15th October 1924 into Old Uppinghamian Lodge No.4227, passed on the 9th December 1924 and raised on the 14th January 1925....

  Rowland Hussey Macy (1822–1877) is remembered as the man who changed retail forever. Fewer people know that he was also a Freemason. Macy was a member of Merrimack Lodge in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he opened his first dry goods store in 1851. Those early years were rough—between 1843 and 1855 he opened four stores in Massachusetts and one in California during the Gold Rush. All of them failed. But instead of quitting, he studied what went wrong and kept going. Born on Nantucket into a Quaker family, Macy went to sea at 15 on a whaling ship called the Emily Morgan.  During that voyage he got a red star tattoo on his forearm—a symbol that later became the famous Macy’s star logo. In 1858, he moved to New York City and opened “R. H. Macy Dry Goods” at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street.  His first day made only $11.08. By the end of that first year, the store had done over $85,000 in sales. That shop became the foundation of the modern department store. Macy introduced id...