AUSTRIAN BRIDE FLIES TO NEW ZEALAND

Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1947, Page 3

AUSTRIAN BRIDE FLIES TO NEW ZEALAND

AUCKLAND, Dec. 80. A fliglit lialf-way. round the world to raarry a farmei" at Runeiman, near Auckland, has been compieted by a 22-year-old Austrian womaa, Miss Eva Bichler: She stepped off the British Pacific Airways Skymaster Amana at 6.80 this morning only nine days after sctting ont from Vienna on her matrimonial mission. , Her future husband is Mr.'P. P. Hoffmau; an Austrian who has been farming at Runciman for some years. Short, thickset and looking mucn. .younger than 22, Miss Bichler speaks good English with only a trace of foreign accent. She loolced tired and* a little bewildered after her loug journey and she submitted herself to a barrago of questions from newspaper reporters wi-th some diffidence. There was no one at the airport to meet her. Leaving Vienna on December 21, Miss Bichler flew all the way to New Zealand via London, New Yorlc and San Franciseo. She said her parents were still living in Austria and she had no diffieulty in leaving Vienna w"hich was in the Ameriean zone. Food was ver-y scarpe in her own country and she had noticed a contrast, in the United States. She added that she had learned English at Vienna University and had read a number of books on New Zealand. She had been st.udying Latiu and philosophy and would continue her course in these ' subjects in the Dominion.