35-YEAR PROMISE KEPT
NOTED VISITOR TO N.Z. SIR HARRY TWYEORD (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “I am here in fulfilment of a promise made to myself 35 years ago," said Sir Harry Tvvyford, a former Lord Mayor of London, who arrived by the ’ Rangitata to spend three, weeks’ holiday in New Zealand. He will leave for Sydney from Wellington on April 3.
“That promise is to revisit ‘God's own country’—that is what old Scddon used to call it.” lie intends to do some schnapper fishing, probably in Marlborough Sounds. For three years until 1904 Sir Harry Twylord 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 raising .£375,000 and for Chinese rei'uernes £140,000 had been collected.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 6
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14135-YEAR PROMISE KEPT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 6
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