MARRIED BY PROXY

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1932, Page 6

MARRIED BY PROXY

; dAlMation meets ms BiupE : UweECHEARTS 20 YEARS AGO' ].AUCKLAND, Augustl.li. , • j Separated . from a sweetheart of . his boyhood days for twenty years,, a young Dalhi.ati.dn resident of Auckland met Her. again yesterday as his wife. >' j The bride, now in her twenty-eighth, year, was: g. native of Yugor, ilaivia,' and her marriage with; Cletn,; Melish took place by, proxy in August last year in her* home .town,/The bride came out with two .of her countrywomen, one of whom was arriving kith, three children to, joiri s Her’ libsband, while the other had been spending g, holiday in her native‘country. .Despite the faet that; the reunion of the newly-married , couple took place, before the eyes) of Customs official'',, find ;Press representatives in . the, saloon, of the .jlauttgan.Ui, the parties were not greatly, embarrassed. After, an affectionate embrace, they agreed to pose for a, photograph oii the deck of the : vessel. Customs .officers had sortie difficulty' in checking 'the 1 passports of the parr ties, butl Mr M. A. Ferri, Dalniation interpreter,; of Auckland, quickly re-, cognised the niarriagie Certificate arid explained that' no further formalities or church ceremonies would be necessary. , '[ )■ \ \ 1

Husband atid wife , started their honeyriioon tour- blind iif hand aS, they walked down the gangway. '7,'