A WAR BABY.
CLAIMED BY GRANDMOTHER. ALL THE WAY FROM LONDON. A family residing a few miles from Dannevirke had a surprise visit from an unwelcome visitor during the Christmas season—a woman who was supposed to he at the other side of the world. Her mission across the intervening 1-1,000 or so miles was to secure possession of a child (states the Hawke’s Bay “Herald's” Dannevirke correspondent). During the war a young Englishman married, and after spending three weeks with his war bride lie returned to the front. lie spent three years serving his country, and came through the tconllict safely. Unfortunately, one of his first unpleasant duties of civilian life was to obtain a divorce. I he court awarded him the custody id a little girl tlial had been horn as a result of the wedding. The mother of the divorced wife appears to have taken strong objection to the decree of
the court, and she played a leading part in subsequent events. The young father determined to start life afresh in New Zealand with his child, and arrived in the Dominion about two years ago. The little girl was placed in a boarding-school, apparently free from all influences at the other end of the world. The father decided to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives near Dannevirke, and on Friday the grandmother walked into the pleasant family gathering and made her mission known. Nothing could have been more complete than the domestic sensation she created. She said she had made the journey from England in order to taxe the child hack u it li her. hut the father made his parental authority chair, and bis daughter does not 'leave his custody.
The child is now being closely watched, and the grandmother is reported to lie preparing for her departure homewards.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3
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302A WAR BABY. Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3
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