Her husband said: “It’s fine of that lady. We will ’phone her and accept the offer right away.”

Mr. Wood said he planned to follow his wife to Australia by working his passage.

War Bride Will Still Have Trip To Australia
(May 19)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18(A.A.P.). — Mrs. Phyllis May Wood, the Australian war-bride who once offered an eye for her fare home to Australia, may still get her trip, even though she cancelled her passage by the Marine Phoenix.

Mrs. Marie Wolverton, of Detroit, who offered 600 dollars (£180 Australian) towards the fare of Mrs. Wood, her husband, and their three year-old son, says the offer is still open.

Mrs. Wood on May 9 walked off the Marine Phoenix because her husband was unable to travel with her. Yesterday Mrs. Wolverton asked that her cheque be handed to the Australian consul at San Francisco to use for the family’s passage.

It will not meet the full cost, but an anonymous resident of Passaic, New Jersey, has offered the balance.

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On her arrival in Sydney in September 1947, Phyllis May Woods told the press that she and her family were living in Mascot and, following the birth of her baby, she intended “to form a Sydney club to help G.I. brides back to Australia”. She explained that, while in the U.S., she had been supporting her family by tap-dancing in “honky-tonks”, but after falling pregnant could no longer work. On June 29, 1948, The Barrier Miner reported “Mrs. Phyllis May Wood, the Australian war bride who offered to sell her right eye in America last year to get her fare back to Australia, is returning to the U.S. next month. She has booked to leave in the Marine Phoenix because she is disappointed at the housing shortage and high cost of living here.”