A RUNAWAY MATCH.
UNIVERSITY OF- “HARD KNOCKS” A POST-GRADUATE COURSE. AUCKLAND, March 26. Romance'-surrounds two arrivals by the Aorangi—Basil Stanley, aged 32, a university football coach, and his wife, formerly Evelyn Anderson, aged 23, the daughter of a wealthy retired sugar planter at . Honolulu, who had made a runaway match owing to the opposition of the lady’s parents. When they left Honolulu they had only 140dol, and’ Stanley elected to have his wife treated as a passenger and himself as a stowaway. On arrival at Auckland they "were questioned by the police, who decided that the matter concerned the shipping company, and put them aboard again. Probably they will be taken on to Sydney and th'ence .back to Honolulu, as neither has a passport.
They agree that they are taking a post-graduate course in the university of “hard knocks.’? , ..
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Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 68
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139A RUNAWAY MATCH. Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 68
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