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COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
7 West George Street.
Board of Directors for 1893. — Pres., David Banner-
man ; vice-president and hon. treas., Walter Duncan ;
secy, and depute treas., W. H. Hill, LL.D.; directors,
Jolin Clark, Walter Duncan, John Galloway, Donald
Graham, David Guthrie, John R. Kay, Paul Rotten-
burg, George Smith, John Ure, J. Anderson, jun.,
J. G. A. Baird, M.P., David Bannerman, Sir J. N.
Cuthbertson, W. A. Donaldson, James Finlayson,
David M'Cowan, Robert Kedie, Wm. Ker, Robert
Ballocb, James Campbell, Thomas Carlile, Alexander
Cross, M.P., Alexander Drew, Thos. Henderson, R.
Cowan M'Kinnon, Hugh Steven, Ales. Wylie, Sir
James Bain, Hugh Brown, Sir Michael Connal, G.
Handasyde Dick, J. H. Dickson, Nathaniel Dunlop,
Robert Laidlaw, James L. Mitchell, J. T. Tullis.
The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, incorporated
by royal charter in 1793, includes at present upwards
of 1000 members, representing the principal merchants,
manufacturers, and shippers in the city and neigh-
bourhood, and is recognized as the principal medium
of communication with the Government and Legisla-
ture on all commercial matters. The executive power
is lodged in a board of thirty-six directors, chosen at
the annual general meetings. The board meets for
the discussion of mercantile questions once a month,
or more frequently if found necessary.
ASSOCIATION OF DEACONS OF
THE FOURTEEN INCORPORATED TRADES
OF GLASGOW.
Entry-money, £1 Is. ; the present capital is
£1689 16s. 6d., the interest of which is apportioned
amongst decayed members. Clerk, T. Weir, writer.
207 Ingram St.
THE MASTER MASONS' ASSOCIATION OF
GLASGOW AND VICINITY.
The object of the association is to collect mforma-
tion regarding the state of the labour-market and
other matters connected with the trade for the use
and guidance of members ; to consider all questions
of wages, modes of measurement, disputes with work-
men ■which involve any principle of general import-
ance, and any other questions that may directly or
indirectly bear on the interests of the trade.
Office-bearers for 1893 : — President, John Adam ;
vice-president, P. Anderson ; treasurer, Geo. Barlas ;
directors, William Gordon, John Thaw, T. Calder-
■wood, J. Murray, jr., Robert Murdoch, Thos. Mason,
Jas. E. Crackston, Alex. Webster, Alex. Muir, Peter
Miller, John Watt, and Duncan Watson; secretary,
David B. Macgregor, 51 West Regent street.
GLASGOW MASTER WRIGHTS' ASSOCIATION,
President, Wm. Liviogston (Messrs. Anderson &
Henderson, Ltd.); secretary and treasurer, James L.
Selkirk, C.A., 64 West Regent Street.
The objects of this Association are to promote
good feeling among parties engaged in the trade, and
a thorough understanding of what may he required
from time to time in the regulation of prices, and
generally to consider all matters affecting the interests
of the trade.
GLASGOW LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION.
Office, 26 Renfield Street.
President, ex-Bailie Dansken, F.SJ., F.R.A.S.,
121 West Regent Street ; vice-presidents, J. Harrison,
61 Sardinia terrace, Hillhead, and Robert Stobo, 26
Bellgrove Street; hon. treasurer, Chas. L. Dobbie,'
21 Hamilton Park Terrace, Hillhead; secretary, Jas.
Wilson, C.A., 26 Renfield st. ; law agent, Thomas M.
Stewart, LL.B., 173 St. Vincent st.
Objects. — The objects of the Association are to
resist all attempts at unequal or unjust taxation of
house property ; to endeavour to remove the burdens
by which it is at present unfairly oppressed; to give'
mutual advice and counsel in cases of difficulty, and
generally to take cognisance of all legislation affect-
ing house property.
MARYHILL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Instituted 1852.
Office-bearers for 1893 — Patroness, Lady Camp-
bell of Garscube ; patrons, J. Parker Smith, Esq. of
Jordanhill, M.P., Rev. J. E. Campbell-Golquhoun, of
Killermont, W. E. Campbell-Colquhoun, Esq., Yr., of
Killermont ; hon. president, J. R. Thomson, Killer-
mont House ; hon. vice-president, James Kennedy,
Esq., Chesters, New Kilpatrick ; president, John
Lawson, Esq., The Cottage, Killermont; vice-presi-r
dent, David Buchanan, Esq., Garscadden Mains;
treasurer, John Paterson, Royal Bank, MaryhUl;
secretary, John W. Findlay, 175 West George Street,
Glasgow; directors, Archibald Bulloch, sen., Walter
M'Onie, John M'Lachlan, William Neilson, Robert
M'Nair, John Richardson, Robt. Russell, John Wallace,
Robt. Wallace, C. J, Clelland, Thos. Thomson, W.
P. Lowrie, J. W. Stewart, Samuel Brisbane, Robert-
Howie, H. D. Robinson, J. L. Imrie, A. Buchanan,
Gavin Gordon, Dr. Hay, James Johnston, John Mair,
Jas. Martin, T. J. Eraser, W. J. Buchanan, Robert
Renwick, Archd. Bulloch, jun., C. W. Ralston, Wm.
Connell, William Young, Andrew Leckie, and William.
Dishington.
THE GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND '
LICENSED GROCERS' ASSOCIATION.
Hon. pres., Wm. Rogers, 33 Struan Ter., Crossbill ;'
president, Provost James Hunter, 1 Victoria Cross,
Govanhill; vice-president, James Elder, 120 Lang-
lands Road, Govan ; treasurer, J. Campbell, 232 Dum-
barton Rd., Partick; secretary, J. Rowley OiT, vtriter,
93 West Regent Street; offices, 93 West Regent St.
The objects of the Association are to protect the
just rights and interests of the trade in the full and
free exercise of their business ; and for that purpose,
by themselves or a legal agent, to watch and op-
pose any measm-e or proceeding, parliamentary on
local, which may have an injurious or oppressive
tendency.
GLASGOW CORN TRADE ASSOCIATION.
Wm. Morrison, jun., chairman ; M. M. W. Baird,
vice-chairman; W. R. Farquhar, treasurer; Archibald
Hamilton, Peter M'Kichan, James Begg, Thomas
Dunlop, jr., Robert Gilchrist, R. S. Barbour, D.
R. Clark, Robert Ure, John Cassells, committee;
John M'Dougall, secretary, 60 Hope St.
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