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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 191, 26 May 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Charles Statliam (Speaker of the House of Representatives) passed thVough Ashburton on the south-bound express train this mornipg.

Mr G. F. Loney, of the Wellington branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has been appointed manager of the Feilding branch.

,Mr Trevor M. Geddis, managing director of the “Daily Telegraph,” Napier,, has been re-elected chairman of the Napier Harbour Board.

A cablegram from Sydney states that members of the New Zealand Women’s Association held a reception in honour of Mr R. Forbes (son of the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) and his two sisters at the Arts Club in Sydney. The guests were presented with boomerangs and horseshoes by the president (Mrs J. W. Prentice). Among the guests were Sir Benjamin and Lady Fuller.

The Rev. J. J. Heard, Rector of Christ Church, St. Lawrence, Sydney, arrived by the Wanganella this week on a holiday visit to the Dominion. He is a great-grandson of the Rev. Samuel Marsden. New Zealand’s earliest missionary. He was horn in Australia, although liis mother was from New Zealand, and he has lived most of his life in various parts of the Commonwealth. This is his first visit to the Dominion.