BRIDEGROOM’S PLIGHT
WEDDING A DAY LATE DELAYED TRAIN JOURNEY When in the early hours ot Monday morning it became apparent that passengers by the AucklandNew Plymouth express train could not hope to reach New Plymouth before midnight, there were several perturbed persons, but none so worried as a froung man and his mother. The man (was to be married in New Plymouth at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and he had no way of informing his bride and her parents of his position. First it was thought that Te Kuiti’s flying Mayor, Mr. H. T. Morton, might run him down in his Rearwin, but 'information from Te Kuiti stated that the flying field was almost under water. ,By the efforts of ;the .railway officials, telephone communication was established with the Hawera railway station, and finally a telephone message was passed on from there. The young couple were married in New Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 4
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