FINDING THEM BRIDES
MEN FROM OVERSEAS. LONDON, March 17. People of New Zealand who have bachelor sons and brothers on service in Britain will be interested in the statistics about marriage given by Mary Oliver and Heather Jenner, two “society” girls who started the marriage bureau in Bond Street, London, shortly before the war. As 983 marriages have taken place as a result of their introductions, they have had some experience. Many of the male clients come from all parts of India and Africa — including Nigeria. Morocco, and the Gold Coast—besides Canada, New Zealand. Australia, Ceylon, Palestine, China and the United States. One of their clients is a young man whose home is on the Seychelles Islands, where he has his own whaling boat and crew, and spends all his time catching whales. He says that in peacetime he makes about £l5OO a year, as every part of a whale can be sold. He did not try to gild his island life, and when he asked the marriage bureau to find him a wife he said that she must be “one who like heat, whales, Hies, and natives.” but added that he has a very nice little bungalow and that the island is lovely..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1942, Page 8
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