A-hhur.st has a distinction in church building, say- the * Manawatu Times." It cost the community nothing more tI\*UA th-». addition or ona letter t<> i-s name, alin iias never been m debt. By faulty orthography, the little town was christened •* Ashurst.” in honour of 1 ord Aslihurst. who owned land in tii * vicinity. which ho had acquired through the Manchester Corporation. who originally settled the block. Lord Ashhurst’s sister discovered that. ( ock-ney-like. an “ h ' had been omitted. She made protest, and was so gratified with the read\ compliance, that she pnfsented the people v, ith a hand-somely-finished and iurmslied church.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 9
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