HONEYMOON HEAVEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1934, Page 8

HONEYMOON HEAVEN

SCHEME AT MARGATE. Romance sat in the Council Chamber at Margate, England, lately, and the jolly City Fathers chuckled arid decided to become City Fathers-in-law. ' Margate is going to throw wide the • town and become a paradise of “buck--1 shoe” benedicts. All over the country people are marrying in haste to be • content at Margate. During one summer month honeymoon couples will be given facilities to enjoy all that Margate—the little Parls-by-lhe-Sea—has to offer. The plan will be carried out with tact and secrecy. Tho mayor is going to keep silent. Couples will interview him in his parlour, and on production of their marriage certificate, a little rice, or maybe an old boot, they will be granted superb facilities which will save the honeymoon from the hardship of a mere moneymoon. Banns are booming, and applications are already flocking in. A smiling town official recently spoke modestly of the plan’s popularity. Letters have come in from all over tho country. A letter from a tactician living in East Croydon, stated that he had not proposed yet, but, “if accepted, I shall arrive on June 10.” There is a suggestion that the scheme may become a permanent feature of the resort. With the present fashion for multi-marriages, it is understood (says a humorous correspondent) that after the third visit the town becomes one’s own property. The real hero of the town is the mayor. He will have to kiss all the brides, but as he goes to bed and tenderly places 135 hunks of wedding cake beneath his pillow he will shake tho rice out of his “turn-ups” happy in the knowledge that only the merry genius of Margate could have given birth to so grand a scheme.