FATHER AND SON.
REUNITED AFTER NINE YEARS’ • SEARCH (Received Tuesday, 8.5 p.m.). MELBOURNE, May 22. . Percival West states that he will not return to New Zealand as he is quite happy and comfortable at Mornington Hotel, where he has been employed for the past seven years. West has not seen his father since 1911.—(P.A.) (A previous message stated that Andrew West, aged 70, who left New Zealand for Australia recently to resume a nine years’ search for his son Percival, received information from Mr George Emery, of the Grand Hotel, Mornington, that Percival had been employed by him. for the past seven years. Father and son have been reunited. Andrew West, of Morriniville, left for Australia for the second time a fews days ago in the hope of tracing his son Percival, who, returning from the war wounded, was taken into hospital at Adelaide about nine yeas ago, since when his relatives had been unable to learn anything of his fate.)
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Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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