SHIPBOARD ROMANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 9

SHIPBOARD ROMANCE

MISS STRACHEY’S PLANS. CABLEGRAM FROM MOTHER. Adelaide, Jan. 11. Mr. Olav Hultin and Miss Barbara Strachey, who became engaged during the voyage of the Finnish barque L’Avenir, will not wait until they reach Sydney to be married, as originally intended. The wedding will take place at Port Germein on Tuesday. They reached Adelaide yesterday afternoon and are staying at Glenelg. Miss Barbara Strachey is an Oxford graduate and a niece of the famous biographer, Mr. Olav Hultin is a Finn, and a son of the Professor of Classics at Helsingfors University. Miss Kronig, of Manchester, another passenger on the barque, will be bridesmaid, and the secretary of the Port Lincoln Yacht Club (Mr. A. Payze) will be best man. Immediately after the couple disembarked Miss Strachey sent the following cable message to her mother. “Delicious trip. Have fallen unmistakably in love and intend marrying here immediately. No conceivable misgivings. Everything perfect.” To-day she received the following cable message from her mother, who is political secretary to Lady Astor: “Tons of love, but please don’t be precipitate. How can we approve without knowing his nationality, age, profession, income, plans and thousands of items. . . . Marriage is a rather serious affair.”

Mr. Hultin said to-day that although he had fallen headlong in love with Miss Strachey when she first boarded the L’Avenir at Copenhagen, she had not reciprocated until the ship was nearing the equator.

“It must have been the fatal tropical moon,” suggested Miss Strachey. “After that I could not help myself.”