HONEYBONE REUNION

Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 15

HONEYBONE REUNION

Family Lives Up To Motto

(R Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 16. The world-wide Honeybone family, which can trace ancestors to the year 1300. will hold its eighth annual gathering in London on Saturday At the same time members of the family in Australia. Canada, New’ Zealand, and the United States will also “carry out the family's motto, ‘Gather together as often as you can,’" a spokesman, Mr William Hcneybone. said. He said the family had 250 members living in Australia, 160 in New Zealand, 'wtieu births have been numerous during the last five years," 40 in Canada and 60 in the United States. Chairman at the London gathering will be Chief Master Sergeant Stanley Roy Honeybone, of the United States Air Force, whose home is in Pennsylvania. Sergeant Honeybone will make a presentation of two Bibles to two London schoolchildren on behalf of the family's oldest living male member, 89-year-old Mr Herbert James Honey bone, of Sydney. The latter asked the present headmaster of his old school in London to choose two of the younger boys to receive the Bible? in memorv of the time in 1879 when Mr Honeybone played the French horn in the school band. This year, the New Zealand branch of the family will hold its reunion in Christchurch. Members of the family from all parts of the country are expected to attend. Members of the family will gather in the Selwyn street lodge hall at 5 p.m.. when photographs will be taken. A high tea will then be served, followed by dancing and other social activities. Visit To Monastery.—The Duke of Gloucester rode up a mountainside on a mule yesterday to visit the 1000-year-old monastery of Great Lavra on Mount AthosAthens. March 16. Minister’s Death. Finland's Foreign Mini**e- Mr Ralf Toemgren, died in Turku, western Fih'and. las’ night Mr Toemgren, a former Prime Minister, was C2 —Helsinki, May 16.