MARRIAGE AND WORK

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 199, 18 August 1933, Page 5

MARRIAGE AND WORK

THE PROCESS REVERSED IN A LONDON INSTANCE Most men look for a job before their weddings. But in North London, says the Daily Mail, a man was recently looking for a wedding before getting fl job. Mr AV. T. Thorne, assistant at the AVood Green Baths, was offered the position of baths superintendent at Romford, Essex, three weeks ago—provided he. was married within three weeks. Mr Thorne, who was a widower, said at the time, that following the Romford council’s offer he returned to the Wood Green baths and in a matter-of-fact business way proposed to Miss P. M. Perry, an auburn-haired cashier there. “I placed the whole position before her. and she agreed to marry me,” he said. “The Romford authorities are satisfied that she will he suitable for the duties at the baths which will fall to her as-my wife. “Until I asked Miss Perry to be my wife we had been no more than fellowworkers. I have been at Wood Green for 12 months, but she has been there about six years.” Miss Perry and Mr Thorne were married. at Tottenham registry office on the last day of the three weeks’ limit. The “man who had to bo married to get a. job,” however, was nearly disqualified n,t the finishing post. While Miss Perry was out with a friend in a two-seater ear on a shopping expedition a few hours before the time fixed for the wedding, the ear came into collision with a van. For a second Mr Thorne’s future —and still more so Miss Perry’s—seemed to hang in the balance. Then Miss Perry stood up and moved her arms and legs. She was not dead. No bones were broken. She was merely suffering from shock. The all-important wedding could take place after all. Although still a little shaken, the bride arrived, at the registry office at the appointed time, the ceremony duly took place and Mr Thorne' got the new post for himself and wife.