ROMANCE OF A GIFT
FATHER AND SON REUNITED. PARCEL OF ILLUSTRATED PAPERS NEW ZEALANDER COMING HOME. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.15 ip.m.) SYDNEY,, This Day. Canon Hammond says that a parcel of Now Zealand illustrated papers that were left by an anonymous woman at the receiving depot for gifts for the poor has been the - means of reuniting a sick returned soldier and his father. The papers were presented to the soldier, a New Zealander, who read in one of them that his father, whom he had not seen for years, was seeking him urgently. The son communicated with his father and arranged his return to New Zealand by the first available steamer.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 65, 26 December 1936, Page 5
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116ROMANCE OF A GIFT Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 65, 26 December 1936, Page 5
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