A ROMANTIC STORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 February 1917, Page 4

A ROMANTIC STORY.

A lady passenger who arrived in Auckland by the last stcamcn Trom London, tells a romantic love which originated in a military hospital, bliss Sykes who was in charge of about 15 domestic servants who arrived by the same steamer, was sister in charge of a ward in the Manchester Royal Infirmarv, and there it was her duty to attend many of the Australian and New Zealanders invalided from France. She took great interest Jn the boys from the Overseas dominions, and had Mr L. \V. Soper —then a soldier — as a patient. Their friendship ripened into affection, and eventually burse and soldier became engaged. The soldier had been severely wounded in the Great Adventure, and had lost a leg, so that he afterwards returned to the Dominion, Blenheim being his home. Miss Sykes continued hi the grand service in which she was. employed until late last year, when she recoil ed lea v to come out to New Zealand. The wedding, which was designed in Manchester, will thus take place in the country of her adoption. Still another romance saw daylight in the same ward, and it is again, a New Zealander, who has chosen a nurse in the same Manchester hospital as his bride to be, but he is back in France and she is waiting in England —nursing his less fortunate fellows — so both are “doing their. Lit, as the popular song goes. /h* j