MAYOR AS MATCHMAKER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 1

MAYOR AS MATCHMAKER

ITALIAN SINGER WANTS . A WIFE REQUEST FROM AUSTRALIA Away in unsympathetic Australia, an Italian singer pines for a wife. Apparently his search of the Commonwealth has not found him a mate, for he has written to the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. G. Baildon, for help. Addressed to “The Lord Mayor of Auckland,” the letter ran: “I am asking kindly to you a delicate favour, to put in the local newspaper this letter. I am a single Italian singer. AH my life I sung in operatic companies, but I don’t like Australia because too hot, too dry, too dusty, and the population not give value to the good singing, therefore my business not go too well. “My age it Is 40, and I am not tall. I wish to marry a lady pianist with some money for help me, if possible thin and fair. Don’t care which church she belong. I heard about New Zealand, sure I like, and I will try, if lam lucky. If one I will find please, you will see if she belong to a good family. Waiting, lam your obliged.”—Signor 1 Nor was that all. A portrait of the heart-hungry signor accompanied the letter. Mr. Baildon is not “thrilled” by the prospect of having to act as matchmaker. The likelihood of his sanctum being invaded by a horde of spinsters he regards as rather appalling. He suggested jocularly that a deposit should accompany any , applications.