BOY SEEKS HIS MOTHER

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

BOY SEEKS HIS MOTHER

MOTHER IN SEARCH OF BOY. A VERY STRANGE STORY. A strange story has just had a stranger sequel in Melbourne. Early in the year a stowaway arrived In one of the American liners that go to Australia. He gave his name as Roy Penberthy and stated that he had been adopted when he was four months old ■ by a couple who lived in Cornwall. Since then he had lived in many countries, but he had heard that his mother was living in Australia and, as a desperate measure, had stowed away in an attempt to find her. A man who also had lived in England in the‘tiny Cornish village from which Penberthy came visited him and examined him carefully. He was able to mention many features of that place, and the man was convinced that his story was correct. But, in spite of much publicity that was given to the story, the mother was not traced, and Penberthy was deported from Australia and returned to America. The other Cornishman was, however, still unshaken. He wrote to his home, enclosing cuttings from the Australian papers. These, in turn, were published in the local newspaper, and a resident sent them to a British sailor serving on a China station. This man cut them out and sent them to his mother in London, and this woman was the sister of the mother Penberthy had travelled so far to seek. The mother's name is Mrs. Mears, who is now living in Sydney, and she has learned, for the first time, of her son’s adventure. And now the search begins again, for it is the mother who is now seeking her son. If only she had seen the story in the Australian papers the happy ending would have been reached many weeks ago. As it is, who knows what further adventures and searchings may not be necessary before it is achieved? A REMINDER. ANIMAL AND GOLLIWOGS. The competition for the Sunshine Cupboard closes next Saturday and all parcels, addressed to “Wendy,” ’ care of the Taranaki Daily News, New Plymouth, must be in by then—and do not forge! to see that a piece of paper with your name, age and address clearly written on it is firmly fastened to the toy that you send in.