Eighteen months ago , Robert Hunterwho is exiled on a remote part of the Falklands, wrote to the shipping agent asking him to find him a wife. “It is lonely, but she will get used to it,” he said. The shipping agent put a notice in his window, and many lassies were attracted by it. Eventually the choice fell on a widow who had been living alone in apartments. Subsequent negotiations were protracted owing to there being two mails yearly. To-day's cable is the climax. — A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 1
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87Eighteen months ago, Robert Hunterwho is exiled on a remote part of the Falklands, wrote to the shipping agent asking him to find him a wife. “It is lonely, but she will get used to it,” he said. The shipping agent put a notice in his window, and many lassies were attracted by it. Eventually the choice fell on a widow who had been living alone in apartments. Subsequent negotiations were protracted owing to there being two mails yearly. To-day's cable is the climax.—A. and N.Z. Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 1
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