SIR HARRY TWYFORD
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [PER press association.] AUCKLAND, Marell 10. “1 am here in fullilnient of a promise I made to myself 35 years ago.’ said Sir Harry Twyford, former Lord Mayor of London, who arrived by the Rangitata. to spend a three-weeks’ holiday in New Zealand, leaving for Sydney from Wellington on April 3. “That promise is to re-visit Clod’s own country—that is what old Mr. Seddon used to call it.” He intends to do some snapper fishing, probably in the Marlborough Sounds. For three years until 1904. Sir Harry Twyford was an official of the Eastern Exchange Telegraph Company, stationed at Wakapuaka. near Nelson, where the cables formerly came ashore. He said that his appeals for funds for Czech refugees had resulted in the raising of £375.000. and for Chinese refugees £140,000 had been collected.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1939, Page 2
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