A Quest For A Wife

NZ Truth, Issue 994, 13 December 1924, Page 6

A Quest For A Wife

HE TAKES A DECREE (From "Truth's" South Auckland Rep.) ! When, m 1916, his wife kissed him a 1 tearful good-bye on the wharf at Weli lington as he .boarded an army transi port for the distant fighting zone', little did Joseph Mear, a sawmill hand, think I that that was indeed to be a Vgood-bye forever." While over the other side, Maud, as he affectionately spoke of her. wrote to him regularly for a matter of six months, and as he went about his military duties he always had the vision of his sweet little wife before him, eagerly awaited the delivery of every mail from home, and longed for the time when, his army days o'er, he could once more hold her m his arms and say "Never more', dear, will we be parted." When, however, mail after , mail ar- ■ rived and no word came from, his dear one, he was at a complete loss to understand the cause. When finally his transport again deposited i the war-, stained warrior on New Zealand's shore, he immediately made his way to Taihape, where he had lived at the j time of his departure, and found that I his wife- had done the disappearing ' trick with a young man named White- j head. He set' to work to try and find her, but up till the present time, he told Judge Herdman at Hamilton last week, he had not come across her, and had , not even found a trace of her. His Honor had no hesitation m granting a decree nisi.