WIFE WANTED

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4444, 26 April 1930, Page 3

WIFE WANTED

MAYOR ASKED TO HELP. ITALIAN’S QUAINT LETTER. All sorts of strange requests are made to tin* Mayor of a large city, but the quaintest must surely be the one received in the mail by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. CL Baildon, i.a Tuesday. It was nothing less than aireqnesl -from!an Italian singer resident in Adelaide asking Mr. Baildon to find him a wife. Addressed “Lord Mayor of Auckland, ’’ the letter ran: “I am asking kindly to you a delicate favour to put in a local newspaper this letter. 1 am a single Italian Gager. All my life I sung in operatic companies, but I don’t like Australia, because too hot. too dry, 100 dusty, and population not give value to good singing, therefore my business not go too well. My age ii is ID, and 1 am not tall. I wish to marry lady pianist with some money for help me if possible, thin and fair; don’t care which church she belong. 1 heard about New Zealand. Sure 1 like and 1 will try if I am lucky if one I will find. Please you will see if she belong to good family. Waiting, T am, your oldiged, Signor , He enclosed a photograph of himself, presumably to give aspirants for his hand an idea, of his appearance.

Mr. Baildon is not enamoured of the prospect- of interviewing applicants for the position of the Signor’s wife, and to reduce the number lie laughingly suggested that he should prescribe that each application should be accompanied by a substantial deposit.