SAILED TO ENGLAND TO SEE GRANDMOTHER
LONDON, October 4 (Rec. 1.15 p.m.).— Ashore for the first time for 129 days from the windjammer Pamir, a seaman, George King, aged 31, a New Zealander, got a message today from his grandmother King, who lives in Pukehuia, North Auckland, way given the telegram by a reporter, saying that his grandmother in Leicester was anxious to contact him. George grinned and said, “Sure, that’s my grandmother—that’s why I sailed on the Pamii’ to England.” He left Leicester when he was a small boy with his mother and step-father. He served in the New Zealand Navy in World War 11. “Tell grandma I am on my way,” he told the reporter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 4
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