INQUIRY FOR A WIFE.
SI TO PICK FRONT. LONDON. Sect* VL A former soldier, now a resident o£ Queenskuid, apparently. recogiUßinjj that 1 he. like George Ade'o character, is "askI ing to be stung," a month ago wrote to !the Mayor of Leamington "because the ! statistical excess of women over men in j Warwickshire is very likely to prbdnctr a good, sweet ... '~T The inquirer, a stalwart six-footers-Eves on a soldiurs' settlement containing 400 farmers, ranging from a colonel to privates. 'Eighty oi the 400 are bachelors, "each >m his own grazing and ojtchari land." The Mayor informed the speiaal representative -if the Sydney Sun that lie Has received 81 letters from ladies in ail. parte j of the country who are interested in-the j Qneenslander staking a wife.. The letters ! have bwi forwarded to the inquirer, who ' presumably has the first choice, this leav- ; ing 80 girls to take part in the golden ! wending bsdlot for the remaining 73 prizes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 9
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161INQUIRY FOR A WIFE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 9
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