Brother, Sister Meet After 52 Years

Northern Advocate, 21 December 1939, Page 4

Brother, Sister Meet After 52 Years

[Special to “Northern Advocate”} DUNEDIN, This Day.

On the Dunedin railway station platform yesterday afternoon a woman 77 years of age kept a keen lookout for the brother whom she had not seen for 52 years and whom she had believed to have been de,ad for more than a generation. The brother, Mr E. M. Jarvis, of', Capetown. South Africa, had likewise ] long believed that he was the only a surviving member of his family until | a strange chance brought brother and | sister together again. | In the bustle of holiday traffic j they were not sure that one would • recognise the other, and it was | decided that the Cross of St. John | of Jerusalem, which Mi* Jarvis f wears on his coat, should be a | means of identification. I Mr Jarvis left Dune’din for Aus-| tralia in 1887, and, after having lost* touch with his family, went to South ? Africa 10 years later. T Recently he got in touch with the \ Otago Early Settlers’ Association, ,and | through the publication of a donation $ by him of some old-time relics, the ? fact, that he was alive, and his ad- | dress, became known to his only sur- i viving sister, Mrs A. Brosn.an. ? She- got into communication with | her long-lost brother, and an affec- f tionate reunion yesterday was the re-; suit.