’GROOM MISSING
NOT SEEN FOR NINE DAYS.
GIRL’S ROMANCE SHADOWED.
A WEDDING POSTPONED.
(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH,_.This. Day. With the arrangements completed for her wedding in Ohristchnureh yesterday a Greymouth girl found herself without the mail to whom she liad been engaged for the last six month?... .....The bridegroom, who is said to have come originally from Southland, failed to appear. Romance for the girl came about 12 months ago when a tall young sawmill worker first met her m Greymouth. About six months ago they became engaged. The last occasion in which tho girl saw her fiancee was last Sunday week. Arrangements were then made for the pair to come to Christchurch early last week to complete the formalities for their marriage. It was arranged that the man should meet the girl at. Stillwater and - come on - -to Christchurch by train with her, He did not tutn up and the enr) came on alone. As—soon -as .she reached .Christchurch the girl communicated wRJi her parents ion the West Coast and inquiries were made for the missing bridegroom. No trace of him, either on this side or on the Coast, could be found. > s ; 'fClinging fast to the belief that her. fiancee , would put in an appearance on the day planned for the wedding, the girl went ahead with preparations for , the ceremony. Her family arrived from .Greymouth for the wedding. All day long they waited patiently in the hop© that the man would appear. The parents of the girl and friends of hers in Christchurch waited through the night until the rail-car left for Greymouth at 2.30 this morning, still hoping that the bridegroom would put in a last-minute appearance, hut the ■man has not been seen or heard of since last Sunday week. vr. 1
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 223, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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297’GROOM MISSING Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 223, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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