Planning Three- Week Wedding

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 2

Planning Three- Week Wedding

r.v\Z.P.ARe-suer—Csparish:) THE HAGUE. May 26. The self-styled “King of the Gypsies’,’ Koos Petal®, today announced plans for a lavish wedding in Rome with celebrations lasting three weeks and guests consuming “thousands of cows and pigs and truckloads of beer.” Petalo. aged 2L who claims he became king over 2J500.000 gypsies in Western Europe when “Karpalano” (King) Demetros Yoska died in Poland two years ago. said he expected the majority of his supporters to turn up in Rome on August 28 when he marries a 20-year-old gypsy girt Chaminga Caroli. of Oslo. The wedding. Petalo told reporters today, would cost him “a quarter of my fortune." He declined to say how much this was. but said all gypsies under his rule were bound to contribute 10 per cent of their annual income to him. He said the wedding would take place in a Rome cathedral and “in the style of ancient times.” It would be conducted by a cardinal, he said, but he had not yet made up his mind which cardinal he would ask. * * * Shock In Store For Farmers A 23-year-old secretary in a London estate agent's office

;is planning a mission to New Zealand—to prove women "take just as good farmers as men. the “Daily Express” reported today. She is Jane Nash, a farmer’s daughter, of Partridge Green. Sussex. She will represent the West Sussex Young Farmers' Clubs in a private exchange scheme. She sails !for New Zealand on July 1 and will be away about a year. When the organisers of the ; exchange at the New Zealand end heard a girl had been chosen there were raised eyebrows, the “Daily Express" said. It was pointed out that young farmers' clubs in New Zealand do not permit women members. But Jane is determined to go ahead with the trip. “1 understand that in Hawke's Bay. where I’m going. they don't consider women should be involved in the serious business of fanning “Well, they're in for a shock,” she said yesterday.— London, May 27. * * » Wives With Round Table Delegates More than 200 delegates to the Dominion convention of the New Zealand Association of Round Tables and their wives will be in Christchurch this week-end. A party of 30 delegates, from the Australian association will also attend the conference. They arrived in New Zealand on Wednesday land will spend two days at

Mount Cook before the con-i s ference. The delegates’ wives will. : spend Saturday morning shop-' ping at New Brighton and at Christchurch Airport. In the afternoon they will attend a Japanese floral art demonstration at the airport restaurant : given by Mrs F. H. Barrel. A cocktail party followed by dinner and a dance in the Addington Trotting Course kiosk on Saturday evening will be one of the . :ial highlights of the convention. , A morning of golf on Sun- : day will be followed by a , drive to Waihora Park. In the , evening a buffet meal will be served at the Avon Rowing Club and an informal social and concert will end the social part of the convention. * ¥ * Free Kindergarten Officers Mrs A. Steven was reelected unopposed as president of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association at a recent delegates* council meeting. The vice-presidents elected were Mrs A J. D. Dears lev and Mr O. C. Mitchell. Mrs Steven reported that the director of the Trengrove: Kindergarten (Miss A. Johnson) was attending the Australian Pre-school Association's conference in Brisbane. The Department of Education had given permission for the Wainoni-Aranui committee to proceed with the building in Portsmouth streetMrs Stevens was elected; convener of the daffodil com-s

mittee and Mrs N. F. Bartram eixonvener. * * * Navy League Fair At a recent meeting of the women's auxiliary of the Navy League the president (Mrs G. G. Simpson) reported that £152 was raised at a stall in Cathedral square. A jumble sale will be held this Friday. As there had been no Navy ships in Lyttelton this year the women had not been called on to give hospitality to the sailors, said Mrs Simpson. 9 9 • Kept Friend’s Body In House A woman kept her friend's body in her house for nearly a year because “voices ” told her to do so, an inquest was told at Southend today. When police entered her house they discovered the partly mummified body lying on a bed under an eiderdown. The woman, a 79-year-old spiritualist, told the coroner the voices had told her not to get a doetor or go to the police when her friend lay fatally Hl last June. When her friend, a 77-year-oid woman, died the voices told her to keep the death a secret. The inquest was told the two friends had lived together for 31 years. An open verdict was recorded.—London. May 2*. j