During a wedding breakfast at Feilding the bride was called upon to read the sheaf of congratulatory telegrams. Before she realised the import of one from her Palmerston North friend, she read in a voice which proclaimed .suppressed emotion: “May the Lord have mercy upon poor Jack.” Hilarious laughter from the bride and bridesmaids, groom, best man, clergyman, and guests greeted the announcement. The story was told at the celebration of their golden wedding recently, when the merry peals of fifty years ago again echoed through the same roof.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1933, Page 7
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