Engagement
MERCER—PETERSON Tho engagement is announced between Jean Esther, third daughter of the late H. E. Peterson, Masterton, Wairarapa. and Airs. T. H. Wilmshurst., Palmerston North, to Hector Neil, second son of Mr. and Airs. R. Mercer. West street, Palmerston North.
dressing-rooms, they left behind them a great mass of land so beautiful that later denizens of the deep in the shape of Portuguese explorers greeted P : ta the words ‘llha Formosa’—‘lsland beautiful. ’ Scientists may possibly have a different and more prosaic explanation, but at any rate to-day an island called Formosa lies about one hundred miles from the Chinese coast and about five hundred miles south of Japan proper. — From “Scrambles in. Japan and Formosa,” by The Rev. W. H. Alurray Walton.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 14, 18 January 1937, Page 11
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