QUEST FOR WIVES

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20911, 16 September 1939, Page 10

QUEST FOR WIVES

CARGO OF BRIDEGROOMS AMERICA TO GREECE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, August 20. A ship with a cargo of bridegrooms is now on the way from America to 1 Europe. There are 238 of them, all bachelors and members of the Ameri-can-'Hellenic Progressive Association. Every year a group of young m»« from the association sail to Greeeo to find brides among aic.r owu . The ship is the Conte di Savoie and when she berths at Piraeus each of the 238 bridegrooms-to-be will proceed to find his prospective bride. When he has chosen the girl, the next move is to ask his most important relative to call upon her family. The relative has to persuade the family that by letting their daughter marry his kinsman they will be bringing upon themselves untold and uui imagined honour. Their daughter will sail to America and become rich as all Americans. The girl, however, has the last ; word in the matter. She must see and approve her suitor before negotiations ! can be concluded. Once the approval of the parents is won a meeting must ibe arranged. Such courting as there is must be done quickly, for the boat will not wait. It is due to sail back to America with the 238 bachelors, with or without brides, three weeks after arrival.