ROMANCE ON SHIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 144, 29 March 1928, Page 6

ROMANCE ON SHIP.

NEW ZEALAND GIRL MARRIED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 28. A New Zealand girl, Miss Ella Brown, oversea buyer, for the great drapery firm of Farmers and Company, left Sydney at Christmas on her annual business tour to comb the markets of England, the Continent and America. Word has just been received of her marriage in Paris. It was a shipboard romance. Miss Brown met a Calcutta jute merchant, Alexander Mair, on the liner on which they were both Homeward bound. A brief engagement culminated in a rapidly-arranged marriage by special license. Miss Brown advised her family and the directors of Farmers by cable. On her world tours, which she lias been making annually for the past six years, Mrs Mair has visited many out-bf-the-way places, and so successful has been her buying in countries off the beaten track that Farmers have encouraged her to "see more of the world." , A , In the itinerary of the present tour she included Algeria and Morocco. She had previously toured the East, has visited every country on the Continent, has searched the bazaars of Egypt and Palestine, and has made one trip via Panama. Last year Mrs Mair lelt a liner at Bombay" and went by coastal' steamer to Karachi, and on to Basra, then by nn up-river boat to Bagdad. Thence she made a six days' motor trek across the Syrian desert to Damascus and Beirut. She is a daughter of Mr William Brown, of Dunedin. She will return to Svdney in June at the conclusion of her business schedule. She has not disclosed' where she will settle with her husband. Possibly the delayed honeymoon may be spent in Kashmir, one of the few countries she has not vet seen.