A LONELY NEW ZEALANDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3324, 31 October 1919, Page 5

A LONELY NEW ZEALANDER.

UNAB,I_,E TO GET MARRIED. $ LONDON, Sept. 6. On the eve of leaving for New Zealand ,3, niember of the N.Z.E.F. who signs himself “Dominions,” wrote to the Daily Mail deplering that he was going home unmarried, not from choice .l-at from necessity, and asking how it was possible for a stranger to overcome British conventins. . “How does one get married in England?” Many thousands of fellowmen from the Dominion seem to have discovered the delightful secret which has eluded ime.‘,” “Domillions” says that one of his acquaintances advised himlto go to church, where he would get to know people, but he met. without success, finding everybody so,Bliiff, so formal, so correct. His one regret. in leaving England is, consequently, that he‘ is not taking an English wife with him.

Needless to say, with the closing down of Parliament and the Peace Conference, this proved :2. fruitful topic for correspondence for some days, with letters or condolence and advice, and even, apparently, with proposals of marriage. Those which were addressed to “Dominions” himself will remain unopened, but those ruddressed to the editor give an indiea_ tion of various points of View on “Dominions,"’ problems. One corresjh pendent regrets very much his departure because. he has a dozen likely girls to whom he could introduce the New Zealander_ There are boundless invitations, many attractive and delightful to visit towns and villages where eligible girls are said to be tumbling over one another. One pathetic little note is from a Cilmbridge V‘illa.ge,- where quite a lot of giils “never get a chances." From a Surrey garden, also, a. girl deplores being the victim of convention, “which spoils everything by making it impossible to make friends.”

Some of the girls a.re more enterprising. One belonging to London has been trying to get to New Zealand since February last, wants to know how to obtain a husband on arriving there, having failed to" do so in England. ‘Another says she is about to accompany a girl chum to New Zealand. The chum is to be married as soon as they arrive’, and the girl her~ sc-If challenges “Doininions” to meet the ship on his ari'iVal_, so that there ‘may pozssibly be :1. double wedding. VVhile all this discus-ion was going on in the columns of the 111 Daily Mail, an enterprising advertiser .in—serted -.1 quiet zulnoullc.e.nlent in '‘thc Agony Columns of The Times: “Dominions———Why not try Folkestonc leas, 6th September_ Brown c-.ap.."' ’