QUICK COURTSHIP.
MAYOR OF BIRKENHEAD’S
LOVE AFFAIR,
LANDS. IN SYDNEY' ON OCTOBER 4 AND NOW' MARRIED.
(Special to the Times.) "'re, :AUCKLAND, Oct. 19. ■ Considerable interest, ' says the Sydney correspondent of the Star, has been aroused by the lightninglike courtship of Mr Ernest Skcates. Mayor of' Birkenhead. He landed in Sydney from.• Auckland -on October 4 and "was last, ♦reek married to a Sydney- girl rWhom , lie met only a few days previously. The . bride 1(3 Miss Dorothy Laseclles, a Melbourne girl, well-known as a singer. When the Prince of -Wales was on'his Empire tour in 1921 Miss Lascelles was chosen to sing the song of welcome to him in the Melbourne Town Hall.
. Mr Skeates, with a party, went to the Empire (Theatre-a few days after iiis arrival .in Sydney, and was introduced to Miss "Lascelles, who was also at the productions A friendship sprang up, and within a- week the 'couple were engaged.; They were married in the -Pitt Street Congre'gational Church i The honeymoon will be spent in New . Zealand. The bride and bridegroom are leaving Australia . almost immediately after the wedding ceremony(W
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 5
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