AFTER 20 YEARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 11

AFTER 20 YEARS

N.Z. COUPLE MEET

COUSTN OF SIR J. CARROLL

LONDON, Sept. 5. A Now Zealand couple, once husband and wife, who had not seen each other for 20 years, met at (lie Radiolympia Theatre, London, this week —Mr. Peter Bernardi La Morto and Princess Airmi Eirrarria, cousin of the late Sir James Carroll.

Mr. Bernard, as he is known at tho theatre where lie is compere, left the stage during the show, and was told that a lady was -waiting to see him in his dressing-room. She was Princess Airini Eirrarria, his former wife. “It was a surprise to meet her again,” said Mr. Bernard, in an interview. “Twenty years ago we parted at Honolulu after agreeing to disagree.” Tho cotiplo first, met in London. '! hey spent, their honeymoon travelling to Now Zealand, where, for a time. Air. Peter Bernard lived in tho Maori village where his wife’s father was chief. During tho war Air. Bernard returned to England to enlist. Afterwards the marriage was dissolved, and ho and tho princess did not meet again until this week. The princess is now on. tho Continent. “We will meet again when she returns,” Mr. Bernard said. “We. will talk again of our life in New Zealand. Last night I asked for news of old friends there, and I asked whether some, apple trees which I planted are flourishing. Before slip left tho princess gave mo a golden locket, containing her photograph."