"DARBY AND JOAN"
SWEETHEARTS WED. AFTER HALF A CENTURY. ROMANCE OP REAL LIFE. True love never dies —at least it did not in the case of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Watson, who arrived by the Rangitata this morning. Boy and girl sweethearts, they , 'went their respective ways in.early life —"Darby" to come to New Zealand, marry, and rear a family, and "Joan"
J to remain in the Homeland to do likewise. Half a century passed and with it "Darby's" wife and "Joan's" husband. Then a letter from New Zealand to his old sweetheart brought the two into touch again, with the result that Mr. Watson left New Zealand six months ago, met his boyhood sweetheart, and married her. They have come to New ' Zealand to live out the evening of their lives. "It was all very remarkable," said Mrs. Watson this morning. "On the way out from England we played games .1 on deck and it seemed like being back at school together again." Mr. Watson was in the employ of 1 Sargood, Son and Ewen in Auckland for '■> !29 years. Hβ has three children and f twelve grandchildren. Mrs. Watson has. .; two children and three grandchildren, " all in England.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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