Bride From Germany

For Kavieng

WHEN 19-years-old Fraulein Gisela Hansen, from Flens burg, North Germany, arrived in Sydney airport, on September 1, en route to Kavieng, New Ireland, she was met by a team of photo graphers and reporters. She hid her face, and fled; but they kept after her, and the chase continued over the week-end.

The cause of it all was the fol lowing Associated Press despatch from Flensburg. which had been published during the week.

A 19-years-old German girl left here yesterday to marry a man she has never met—a British planter in the South Seas.

The planter, Bert Clifford Batt, 30, had asked the Mayor of Flens burg to find him a bride.

The mayor selected Gisela Jan sen, who left here by air yesterday on the way to New Guinea.

Her trip was delayed months by wrangling over travel papers.

It all started when Batt, who lives on the Kapsu coconut planta tion in the Kavieng district, wrote to the mayor last autumn. The mayor advertised for a bride in the local newspaper and Gisela was the first of 39 girls to reply.

When the replies were passed on to Batt he picked Gisela and then the trouble over documents began.

By February Gisela had every thing she needed except one per mit —an entry permit from Can berra—and this finally arrived. She will fly to N. Guinea, where Batt will pick her up in his private plane.