AFTER 50 YEARS
SISTER MEETS BROTHER LABEL FOR IDENTIFICATION Wearing a hat to which was pinned a large label, " I am Dora." for identification purposes, Jlrs. D. L. Batcher, of London, who arrived in Sydney recently on the Ormonde, was reunited with her brother, a Sydney business man, after a separation of 50 Tears. -Mrs.. Butcher got in -touch with her brother through an Australian friend in London. When hie met hpr, he said he would never have known* her without the label. "I was a schoolgirl when I.last saw my brother," Mrs. Butcher said, " and? recently in London J .met an Australian who was returning to Sydney. l\ asked her to find my relatives for me,j and I also jrent to Australia House, whose officials cabled for information.' Soon after that", my friend succeeded'in tracing my relatives, and now I am\here to see them." When the vessel berthed, Mrs.yßnt- _ cher was met by her brother, who is now 78 years of. age, and his wife and daughter, neither of whom* she before. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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