UNUSUAL MEETING
RANGITIKI PASSENGER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. An English girl who arrived by the Rangitiki last evening had an unusual meeting with her fiance, a former R.N.Z.A.F. pilot. Too impatient to greet her to await the berthing of the vessel, he put on a bathing costume and left Point Jerningliam in a canoe to meet the Rangitiki as she dropped anchor in ihe stream.
Making the canoe fast to the anchor chain, he climbed up onto the deck by means of the hawser line. With the assistance of sympathetic, if surprised, members of the crew he located his fiancee and after excited greetings she watched him scramble down the hawser, back to his canoe, in which he rowed away to await an opportunity of greeting her on the wharf in more orthodox attire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 6
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134UNUSUAL MEETING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 6
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