N.Z. WAR BRIDE IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25393, 16 January 1948, Page 2

N.Z. WAR BRIDE IN U.S.

RECORDED GREETINGS TO MOTHER* "The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, January 15. Much of the homesickness, which was one of the main causes of any unhappiness among overseas war brides in America, might be overcome if they could exchange verbal greetings with their relatives through the use of gramophone records, said Mr A. P. Moecher, of Aurora, Illinois, who arrived at Whenuapai on the Pan American Airways clipper to-day. Mr Moecher said he had recorded Christmas greetings from a New Zealand girl and her American husband to the girl’s mother, Mrs F. M. McLean, of Birkenhead. Contacts he had had with New Zealand and Australian war brides had influenced him to come to New Zealand on holiday with his wife, said Mr Moecher. He had built a home for one war bride. Most war brides were settling in very well. The couple for whom he was bringing out Christmas greetings on both sides of an eight-inch record were Mr and Mrs M. Kiesel. The wife was formerly Miss Dorothy McLean. The cost of the record itself was only 10 cents, and. it had been cut on a machine owned by a friend. He described the machine on which the record was made as being an attachment to a radio-gramophone which was also fitted with a speech-amplify-ing system. The whole cost was 350 dollars.