HUSBAND HUNT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1936, Page 6

HUSBAND HUNT

LONDON TIIWS INQUIRY

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.)

DUE DIN, January 16.

When the London typiste wrote to the Mayor of Dunedin, Rev E. T. Cox,' to enlist his aid in securing a husband for her, she started more than Mie imagined. New Zealand bachelors have been so intrigued by this offer to provide them with a wife —and mother-in-law, too—that they have responded nobly, about half a dozen applications a day 'having been received for the girl’s address. Now a leading London newspaper has joined in the hunt. It is not particularly interested in finding the girl one of those “kind and chivalrous’’ JNew. Zealanders of whom she wrote, blit wants to provide its readers with < l story of the typiste who extended her matrimonial quest to New Zealand. And so to-day the Mayor’s correspondence included a cablegram front the editor of the London newspaper which read: “If you will cable the address of the London girl seeking a New Zealand husband we will give you all reasonable help.” ..'4 : ■

However, the. terms of the girl’s letter have made it impossible for Mr Cox to divulge her name, and address, he has however, entered' into: the spirit of. the thing and has cabled to the girl advising her of the publicity which she may have for the asking and leaving the decision to her. It would be unfortunate for the New Zealanders if, after all, the quest is extended to England and some near at hand wooer wins a is A 0 ke had for the taking—and ] a mother-in-law, too. '