QUEST FOR HUSBAND

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 11

QUEST FOR HUSBAND

London Girl’s Appeal to Mayor of Dunedin

NEWSPAPER’S INTEREST

Dominion Special Service.

Dunedin, January 13.

When a Loudon typist wrote to the Mayor of Dunedin to enlist his aid in securing her a husband she started more than she dreamed of. New Zealand bachelors have been so intrigued by this offer to provide them with a wife ami mother-in-law, too, that they have responded to the tune of about half-a-dozen applications a day for the girl’s address. Now a great London newspaper has joined in the hunt. It is not particularly interested in finding the girl one of those “kind and chivalrous” New Zealanders of whom she wrote, but wants to provide its readers with the story of the typist who extended her matrimonial quest to New Zealand, and so to-day the Mayor’s correspondence included a cablegram from the editor of the London newspaper which read: “If you will cable the address of the London girl seeking a New Zealand husband we' will give you all reasonable help.” But the terms of the girl’s letter have made it impossible for Mr. Cox to divulge her name aud address. He has, however, entered into .the spirit of the thing and has cabled to tihe girl advising her of the publicity which she may have for the asking and leaving the decision to her. It would be too bad for those uxori-ously-iuclined New Zealanders if after all the quest is extended to England, and some near-at-hand wooer wins the wife who is to be had by taking the mother-in-law too.