PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Colonel J. Hargest, M.P. for Invercargill, Avas a passenger for the smith on the express train this morning. Mr W. Bryant left Ashburton by the south-hound express train this morning to attend a- me clang of the Waipiata Sanatorium committee in Dunedin. Mr T. G. Hardy, postmaster at Tuatapere, Southland, and formerly of Ashburton, is visiting this town on annual leave. He is accompanied by Mrs Hardy. Mr M. M. D. Cunneen, who has been appointed auctioneer to the Ashburton branch of the National Mortgage and Agency 00., Ltd., has arrived in Ashburton from Christchurch, but will not take over his duties for several weeks. The 102nd'! anniversary of her birth was celebrated last Aveek by Mrs Frances Mary Speakman, of Newmarket, Auckland. She was horn in the Berkshire village of Appleford, near Oxford, on August 22, 1831. She is confined to bed gOAV, but she is still in possession of all her faculties. The Rev. Stanley Jenkin, who has been supplying at the Oamaru Baptist Church for four months and who conducted thedubilee celebrations last Aveek, passe'd through Ashburton yesterday afternoon /on his way to New Plymouth Avhere he will supply for a month.

The Rev. E, IP. Blamircs (superintendent of the vouth department of the Methodist Church of NeAV Zealand) Avas a passenger for the north on the express train yesterday afternoon. He conducted special young people’s services in Oamaru on Sunday.