ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 5

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

A romance in real life was recounted to a "Mariawatu Times" reporter by a well-known resident of Palmerston North this week. The gentleman concerned was born in Gisborne 30 years ago. His mother, who was his father's second wife, died when he was six months' old, leaving his sister, a year older, and himself. The children were adopted by separate families, and tho father left 'Gisborne for the South Island. The boy was taken to Palmerston, where he has resided for the last 20 years. The children who had really never known one another, were separated, and the father, who married again, lost trace of the children. There now elapsed a- period of 30 j years, during which time both children grew to maturity, married, and in time were blessed with two children ! each. During all this time neither boy nor girl had known each other, cr their father, though all had made attemptß to trace the whereabouts of the others. The boy, however, never lost .hope of eventually finding his family, and on a recent trip to Gisborne, he discovered that hie sister had gone to Wanganui. He followed her there, and recognising her in the street from a photograph he had obtained, he introduced himself, and so one side--of the family was reunited. He had more difficulty in tracing his 'ather > who had moved from Giaborne to NelHon, from there to Wanganui, and again back to Motueka, where a letter from his son found him a few days ago. The son is now waiting anxiously to met his long-lost father. The happy reconciliation after 30 years is expected to take place on the Palmerston North railway station next week.