LOST HER WAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 20

LOST HER WAY

AND MET LOVE. ANGLO-BURMESE GIRL EXPERIENCE IK lONDON. A 20-year-old Anglo-Burmese girl denied, at Brentford County Court, that before she left Burma to visit England for the Coronation she spent the paesage money given to her by her father, a wealthy English electrical engineer.

She was then Miss Phyllis Wates. Now she is Mrs. John Marriner, and she met her husband, a 23-year-old engineer, after she had lost her way one day in London's maze of streets. She wae sued by Mrs, Olga Martindell, of Godfrey Avenue, Whitton, j Middlesex, whp claimed £45, eaying j she had to pay for the girl's passage herself. Mrs. Martindell, who was sailing for j England on the same ship, said Mise Wates' father, who is now dead, asked her to look after the girl on the voyage. She also claimed £5 for one month's board and lodging. Judge Drucquer read a letter, eaid to have been written to Mrs. Martindell by the girL "Sometimes I feel life is not worth living, and I must get away by myself or else do away with myself," it read. The girl, in evidence, said her mother gave Mrs. Martindell her passage money The judge held that Miss Watts, an infant, had not made any contract and dismissed the action. Afterwards the girl told of her love-at-first-sight romance. *?&&* to * *ey *» Burma, but I met John over here one day when I had lost my way and we fell in love," she said. "Mother wants us to m> back to Burma in a month, and John is to have a job in father's electrical company."