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AUSTRALIAN WORKER’S FORTUNE.
FORMERLY IN NEW ZEALAND.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Recd. 40.30 p.m. Melbourne, Jan. 28. Cables received during the week-end announced that Mr. C. W. Rowley, who is supposed to be residing somewhere in Australia, working as a labourer, has succeeded to an ancient Irish peerage as the' result of the death of an uncle in Corsica. A later . message stated that his wife was working as a waitress in a tearoom in the Strand, London. Mr. Rowley, now Lord Langford, has been traced to a modest flat in South Melbourne. He admitted his identity and said he formerly lived in New Zealand and enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. He saw active service in Egypt and France.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 5
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