LONG ROMANCE
BRIDE AT LAST MAKES UP HER MIND By Telegraph- Press Association AUCKLAND, September 2. “What’s all this to do and fuss about?” asked Mr John Turvey, when interviewed at Mission Bay in reference to the cable received from London stating that a 40 years romance is to end in his marriage to Miss Mary Hannah Huntingdon, of England, who arrives at Wellington on October 12. “I don’t want to make any fuss and I am sure she wouldn’t like it.” He added: “Anyway they have got their dates wrong. I came to New Zealand in 1901 and I reckon we were engaged in 1908, when she first said she would come out to New Zealand to be married.” Mr Turvey has spent most of his time cream-grading and butter-making at Stratford. War injuries forced him to give up work and about 18 months ago he settled in Auckland. He has a small war pension. Both were born at Bradford and lived close to each other and attended schools which were not far away. Mr Turvey has not seen his bride-to-be since he left England and not even when he went to England with the 24th Reinforcements did he visit Bradford. He has not decided whether to go to Wellington to meet his bride. She will stay with a brother in Wellington for a few days and will then come to Auckland However, if he goes to Wellington they might be married there. They intend to settle at Mission Bay.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 8
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251LONG ROMANCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 8
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