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ENGAGED DURING THE VOYAGEA SHIPBOARD ROMANCE.-Mr Olav Hu I tin and Mi'* Barbara Strnchcy, why become engaged during the voyHge of Ihc Finnish barque L'Avenir, will not wait until they reach .Sydney to be married, os originally intended. The wedding will take place at Fort Gcrinoin, South Australia, on Tuesday, They reached Adelaide on Wednesday afternoon and ore staying at (Jlenelg.Miss Barbara Struckey is an Oxford graduate and a niece of the famous biographer; Mr Olav II111 tin is a Finn, and a sun of the Professor of Classics ai Hel*ingfour» University.Miss Kronig, of Manchester, another passenger on the barque, will be bridesmaid, and the secretary of the Port Lincoln Yacht Club (Mr A. I'ayne) will be best man, Immediately after the couple disembarked Miss Strnebey sent the following cable message to her mother: “Delicious trip. Have fullenunmistakably in love and intend marrying here immediately. No con eeivjvble misginviugs. Everything Per-tort. “ To-day she received the following cable message from her mother, who is political secretary to Lady Aston “Tons of love, but please don’t be precipitate. How can we approve without knowing his nationality, age, profession, income, plans, and thousands of items. . . . Marriage is rather u sor-11 tilu ulTuir ’ *Oilious affair.Mr Hultiu said yesterday that although he lmd fullen headlong in low with Miss Strachey when she first boarded L'Avenir at Copenhagen, she had not reciprocated until the ship was nearing the equator.It must huvu been the fatal tropic muon, suggested Miss Htrachey. “After that I could nut help myself.'*Miss .Strachey is continuing her habit of smoking cigars, cultivated on board the vessel. Alter their marriage the couple will travel in vnny mages toould Wydn®y “nd wil1 loave l**or° on Febru szled **r^ I'nbiti and then for Europe.IPTVV1I IS
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Singleton Argus
Singleton, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Jan 12, 1934
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