AUCKLANDER'S SUCCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 15

AUCKLANDER'S SUCCESS.

There is something romantic lii (the announcement which has just Comd'-tfl land from Berlin of the marriage of Miss Doreen Barrack, M.A., daughter Of .Mr, E. C. Shepherd, of Stanley Bay. Miss Barrack was bom in a. heavily-bushed outback locality not far from New Plymouth, where her parents broke ill & virgin farm and where their little daughter knew all about bush tracks and, unbridged streams, and had difficulty in bad weather getting along the muddy roads to the small country school. Before she was 10 years of age she came to live ■with her grandparents at Stanley Bay, where she attended the local school in Russell Street. Speaking of Miss Barrack's career at the Stanley Bay school Mr. T. Turbott, headmaster of the Grey Lynn school, who was formerly assistant master at Stanley Bay, said that she was one of the most apt scholars the school ever had. She passed her 7X examination before she was actually 11 years of age, and at 19i years had graduated M.A. at the Auckland University College.

Wishing to extend her education by travel she left for the United States, and before long had gained a post in New °'kj. and when not much past her majority, became prominent in the educational sphere. After five years In responsible positions silo maxle a hurried visit to New Zealand, where she revelled a?am in the bush of her childhood days, staying for some time with Mr. oliepherd in Auckland, she returned to •New York to take up her work. Having made a special study of languages and becoming proficient in German, she got to know many of the cultured Germans m Jvew York. She bccame engaged to t • Adolf Stadtlander, jun., prominent m the management of the North German f°.yd Line. Now there has como the news ox lier marriage to him at his parents' ancestral homo near Berlin.

■I he wedding ceremony, which was conducted in the German language, was a ®°st charming one, being what was described as a flower wedding. There Were flowers everywhere of all colours shades—tall, short, straight, drooped, slender, squat-shaped—in a beautiful w ay all over the altar. The pastor gave t b <; a utif„l address based on a text from tilth: '"Whither thou goest, I 6liall go, J'y shall be my people, thy God > God." Over 150 cables and telegrams rom many countries wefo received, herding to German custom the bride . bridegroom exchanged plain gold 'ngs on the third finger of the fight hand aid on her left hand the brido had an meriean wedding ring to match her engagement ring. Berlin the bride Scribes as second only to Paris in Canty, with its nearly 5,000,000 inhabia|its, streets spotlessly clean, everybody 0 courteous, no sign of disorder. The open-air restaurants, cafes, many with ' lnc ";s and concerts, right down by the ator s edge, seemed to make it, to the 1 anger, a glorious city. One day they , c "t ol 't to Potsdam, which is the town royal castles and is to Germany what eisailles to France. They saw v- erick the Great's tomb, where aapoleon stood and said to his generals:.

"Take off your hats, gentlemen, for if this man AVeie alive I Would not be standing here." They also examined Sans Souci, which Frederick the Great built in imitation on a, smaller scale of Versailles and : Where he entertained Voltaire. Afterwards they went to Hamburg and into the Bavarian Alps. Their greatest experience was to travel to the top of the highest peak in Germany, 9781 ft. Most of the journey was done in a Special train in a cabin Swung up on steel ropes. They got a Wonderful view of fresh country as they were close to the Austrian border. After travel in Other countries they returned to New York in one Of the gigantic liners under the control of th© North German Lloyd, and the former Stanley Bay girl says that Slio is glad ehe has seen so much of the world, for her experiences were so varied that it has impressed on her the wonderful resources of many countries and how human nature is very much the same all the world over. Mrs. Stadtlander gays that the training she pot in the schools and university 011 the North Shore mid Auckland has led her a long way along the road to the success she has achieved.