SPEEDWAY WEDDING
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No Clergyman Will Officiate
DILEMMA 0F MOSSMAN
(By Telegraph-
PALMERSTON N., This Day. Unsuccsssful efi'ort« wei'e made by Emmett "Qurly" Mossman, aged 25, a member of the dirt track racing team brought to New Zealand by his brother "Putt" Mossman to get any Palmerston Noi'th clergyman to agree to marry him to Miss Joan Bui'ke, aged 18, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Burke. 13 Tiber street, Island Bay, Wellington, before the crowd at the Manawata speedway meeting at .Palmerston North last night. Miss Burke' s parents have given the necessary consent to the marriage of their daughter to Mossman, and arrived here yesterday, Miss Burke's brother, Lew Burke. is chief mechanic to "Putt" Mossman's team. His sister met "Curly" Mossman three months ago, and they haye l.eeu planning to get married for over a month. Mossman asked practically every clergyman in Palmerston North to marry Miss Burke and himself on the track, but all refused. None refused to marry them in a cliurch, however. Mossman is going to try his luck with the Wellington clergy.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 4
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