A LONELY NEW ZEALANDER.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1919, Page 6

A LONELY NEW ZEALANDER.

UNABLE TO GET MAIMED. Correspondent). London, Sept. 0. On the eve of leaving for New Zealand a member of the N.Z.E.F.,7 who signs himself "Dominions," wrote -co the Daily Mail deploring that he was going home unmarried, not from choice, hut from necessity, and asking how it was possible for a stranger to overcome British conventions. "How does one get married in England? Many thousands of fellow-men from the Dominions seem to have discovered the delightful secret which has eluded me." "Dominions" says tlVat one of his acquaintances advised him to go to church, where he would get to know people, but he went without success, finding everybody "so stiff, so formal, and 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 a fruitful topic of correspondence for some days. The Daily Mail was overwhelmed' with letters of condolence and advice, and even, apparently, with proposals of marriage. Those which were addressed to "Dominions" himself will remain unopened, but those addressed to the editor give an indication of various points of view on "Dominions'" problem. One correspondent regrets very much his departure since 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 Cambridgeshire village, where quite a lot of girls "never get a chance." 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 are more enterprising. One,' belonging tn London, has iieon trying to get to New Zealand since February last, and wants to know how [ to obtain a husband on arriving there, having failed to do so in England. Au- ; other says she is about to accompany a girl chum to New Zealand. The elium is to be married as soon as they arrrvc, 1 and the girl herself challenges "Dominj ions" to meet the ship on his arrival so 1 that there may possibly be a double • wedding. While all this discussion was going on ' in the columns of the Id Daily Mail, ■ an enterprising advertiser inserted a quiet announcement, in the agony cnl- ; umns of The Times: "Dominions.—Why ; I not try Folkestone Leas, September flth? Brown cap"