SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS MARRIED

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12332, 22 April 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS MARRIED

WHAT NAME FOR THE ANNIVERSARY

A ninety-two-year-old Leven couple, Mr and Mrs Alexander Mackenzie, will celebrate next year the seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding, but they cannot find a name for the event, for their is ( . no recognised title for it in Great Britain.

They have already celebrated their ruby, golden and diamond weddings. Mr Henderson Stewart, M.P. for East Fife, who often visits them, has promised to find a name for their seventy-fifth anniversary. Accepted names for wedding an-

niveraries are:—First, cotton: second, paper; third, leather; fifth, wooden; seventh, woollen; tenth, tin; twelfth, silk; fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twenty-fifth, silver; thirtieth, pearl; fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden; sixtieth, diamond; seventieth (usually), platinum. Mr Stewart told a “Sunday Express’’ interviewer, “The Mackenzies seem to be making wedding history.

“After some research I have practically decided to call their seventyfifth a radium wedding—radium for rarity and radiance.” Mr and Mrs Mackenzie have had a family of five, four of whom are alive. “We have twenty-nine grandchildren. thirty-four great-grand-children, and three great-great-grandchildren,” said Mr Mackenzie. * “They are scattered throughout New Zealand and America, and they will all meet for the first time next year at our celebrations.” Mrs Mackenzie says that the only quarrels they have had were in connection with Robert Burns.

“My husband is a great lover of

Burns’s poetry, and used to quote his poems to all our visitors,” she said.

“For fifty years I allowed him to do so, but after that I decided to call a halt.”