Pen-friends meet after 49 years
Forty-nine years of letter writing came to fruition in Christchurch recently when Mrs Dorothy MacArthur (left) met her German pen-friend, Mrs Annchen Reile. The two started writing as the result of a newspaper advertisement placed in a German newspaper by a New Zealand friend of Mrs MacArthur. The two women have written regularly several times a year except during World War 11. Recently there has been an upsurge in letters as Mrs Reile decided to come from her home, near Hamburg, to the World Veteran Games in Christchurch. Mrs Reile is staying in a hostel at Lincoln College while Mrs MacArthur, formerly of Christchurch, has come from New Plymouth to stay with relatives and to see Mrs Reile. The five gold and three bronze medals that Mrs Reile won at the last World Veteran Games in Hanover have been followed up already by a gold and a bronze in the first two days of the Games in Christchurch. Mrs Reile has entered in 11 events altogether.
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Press, 10 January 1981, Page 2
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