"HONEY MOON TOWN"
TORQUAY'S NEW NAML. Torquay has been given many names. ‘‘Queen of the West,” "Suushineland,” etc., but its latest 'Honeymoontown’’ is perhaps the most novel. The London "Star” has re-christeum.v it beeaus? "Torquay has been fixed on as the honeymoon centre of the returning New Zealand troops and their British brides. Couples are arriving by the score, and by mid-January the total will be near a thousand. "Before th.' discharge ib'pot at St. Mary church is closed down ami the last draft sails for home, several thousand bridegrooms from overseas will have formed their best and lasting memories of (he Old Country through their stay in this beauty spot of Devon. "’lhe hoimymooiiei’h are not eonfined to depot, buildings or camps, bitt :i’" billeted, in little private houses.
"Xow this iiiva.s.’on is not alto gether viewed with favour bv Torquay girls, top (be newly-married visitors have replaced the tide of eligible, free spending, breezy and gallant young New Zealantlers, the great majority care-free bachelors.
"A el the Torquay girls have had a fair innings. About 13.000 New Zealanders have passed through Torquay, and hundreds of the girls of the town have married men ot th.'ir choice and sailed for their new homes. ’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 83, 22 March 1919, Page 7
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