WOOING BY POST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1937, Page 21

WOOING BY POST.

LENGTHY LOVE-MAKING.

YORKSHIRE WOMAN" SAYS YES

(Special.—By Air Mall.)

LONDON 7 , November 12,

For 17 years Mr. Bert Pennyrouth, hotel chef of Wallacia, New * South Wales, never missed writing a weekly letter to Miss Laura Fletcher, of Carlton, \orkshire. Now those letters have ceased as Miss Fletcher left England this week by the Jervois Castle, bound for Australia. Mr. Pennyrouth's patient postal wooing is to be rewarded. Seventeen years ago they met at Bradford, Yorkshire, and a friendship sprang up. But, before it had time to ripen, Mr. Pennyrouth left for Australia. The friendship did not end, however, an witness the weekly letters. When his parents died, Mr. Pennyrouth "popped, the question" by post, and Miss Fletcher, convinced of hie constancy, decided that the answer should be "Yes." Now she has said goodbye to her relatives and friends and has set off at Cupid's behest for a new world of romance. Miss Fletcher has been assured that a letter will be waiting for her at each port at which the boat calls. Mr. Pennyrouth has wooed the bride-to-be for 17 years, but the courtship is to end in a hustle. Miss Fletcher has taken her trouseau and is to be married from the ship immediately on arrival.