WINNING A WIFE
GlltL’S. TERMS FOR WOOER. I METTLE TO' BE PROVED. ! ■ ; ■' I To win a bride a young Birmingham ; man is to travel 20,000 miles across | Europe in a motor -car, he has made j himself. He. is Mr Laurant Milson, an engineer, who while on a visit to Canada fell in love with a Montreal girl, Miss Enid Beaumonde. Miss Beaumonde is a descendant of a family of French settlers. When Mr Milson proposed to her, she said she would accept him if he could prove to her that he had the adventurous spirit of her ancestors. “I was quite flabbergasted by this/'’ Mr Wilson said, when an interviewer visited him at his private garage, where he is putting the finishing 1 touches to his car. “I have a strong sense of humour and, I think, something of the spirit of adventure also. So I accepted the challenge. “Finally. I decided to travel right round Europe in a home-made car. I shall be alone and I shall have very little money with me, so that it will be quite an adventure I anticipate that my journey will take about six months. “All the time J shall keep in touch with Miss Beaumonde, who; -has promised to meet me in England oirimy return. I shall give her an account of my wanderings and adventures, and if she considers that I have 'won my spurs’ we shall be married. We plan to start our married life by buying a ranch out in the West and running it ourselves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 8
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258WINNING A WIFE Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 8
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