ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1919, Page 11

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

SEPARATED FAMILY UNITED. A romance in real life was recounted to a Manawatu Daily Times reporter by a well-known resident of Palmerston. North on Wednesday. The gentleman concerned was born in Gisborne thirty years ago. His mother, who was his father's second wife, died when he was six months old, leaving his sister, a year older, and himself. The children were adopted by separate families, and the father left Gisborne for the South Island. The boy was, taken to Palmerston, where he has resided for the last twenty-six years- The children, who had really never known one another, were separated, and the father, who married again, lost trace of the children. There now elapsed a period of thirty years, during which time both children grew to maturity, married, and in time were blessed with two children each. During all this time neither boy nor girl had known each other, nor their father, though all had made attempts to trace the whereabouts of the others. The boy, however, ntver lost hope of eventually finding his family, and on a recent visit to Gisborne he discovered that his sister had gone to Wanganui. He followed her there, and, recognising her in the street from a photograph he had obtained, he introduced himself, and so flnc side of the family was united. lie had more difficulty in tracing his father, who had moved from Gisborne to Nelson, from there to Wanganui, and again back to Kfotueka, where a letter from his son finally found him a few days ago. The happy reconciliation after thirty years Wns expected to take place on the Palmerston railway station on Friday.