NEWS AND NOTES
One of the questions to.be filled in the official notice of marriage form is ‘‘condition of bride,” requiring information as to whether the lady is spinster, widow, or divorced. Iho other day a prospective bridegroom, without reading the explanatory bracket, wrote, “Good.” A nioie amusing mistake was made in legaul to the query entered as “length of residence in district.” The ardent fellow scratched his head reflectively and said with all solemnity: “Well, I don’t know the length of it, but it is a plain four-roomed house.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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90NEWS AND NOTES Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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