New Zealand Farmer’s Reunion in England
RETURN AFTER 40 YEARS LONDON, June 11. The Bolton Evening News, Lancashire, records the arrival of a ‘ ‘returned exile” from New Zealand—M. John •Silcock—who, when he stepped out of the train at Wigan, was warmly welcome! by his 70-vears-old brother, whom he had not seen for 40 years. He was also met by an elderly sister w r ho last saw him when he was a youth, and by a married niece who had not been born tvhen he left England. At Wigan, Airs. Blicock and her husband heard for the first time in 40 years the sound of the real Lancashire accent. With a delighted smile, the f c rmer remarked, “It is fine to hea: it again. We had nearly forgotten how it sounded.” When he was an ambitious young man of 24, Air. Silcock left a good position as a moulder at the Vulcan Foundry, Earlstown went to New Zealand, and established himself as a farmer in the Auckland district.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 4
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