MAORI BRIDEGROOM
REFUSES TO MARRY. fßv Telegraph. Press Association.' GISBORNE, this day. Although the banns had been read and full arrangements made for a ixitive wedding on the East Coast this week, the ceremony did not eventuate. The day before the groom disappeared. His relatives searched for hin> and brought him back, but at the service the bridegroom got up and said he was not going to marry- and left the guests, numbering four hundred. who were present. It was decided to carry on the feast for which elaborate preparations had been made.
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 5
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