WEDDING IN LONDON.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18680, 1 May 1926, Page 6

WEDDING IN LONDON.

NEW ZEALAND BRIDE. (TBOM OTO OWK COEBESPOKPIXr.) LONDON, February 26. At St. Martin-in-the-Fields yesterday afternoon, a wedding of New Zealand interest took place. The bridegroom was 'Mr Gerald Barton Browne, of Sydney, and the bride Miss Cecily Granville Turner, daughter of the Ijite Mr Arthur Turner and Mrs Turner, and granddaughter of the lata Mr C. R. BlaJuston (Christchurch), and greatgranddaughter of Bishop Harper, who went out tp tjie Dominion in the 'Fifties. The Rev. C. Coleridge Harper, Rector of Ford, Northumberland, came up to London to officiate, and he was assisted by the Rev. C. H. Ritchie, acting-vicar of St. Martin-in-tha-Fields and formerly of Dunedin. Mrs Turner gave away her daughter, who wore a simple dress of beige georgette, with hat to match, .and carried a bouquet of carnations. Miss Mickey Turner was in attendance, dressed in pale green crepe de chine. The bridegroom, by the way, is very well known in New Zealand. He served during the war in the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, and he has spent a good deal of time in Auckland with his relatives, Mr and Mrs Eliott Bartou. Following the ceremony Mrp Turner entertained a few friends at a reception at the Grand Hotel, Trafalgar square, those invited including Admiral J: E. T. Hfirper, R.N., and Mrs EtarSer, Dr. Gerald Harper, Dr. arid Mrs . MacNaughton Christie, Mrs Empson, Mr and Mrs C. J. Wray, Miss Evelyn Moore, Miss Ainger, Miss Stack, Mrs Fox, Miss V. Russell, Mr Harold Seddon, Mrs Walter Moore, and Miss Dennistoun, Ladv Nolan and Miss Nclan, Mr and Mrs Bernard Tripp. The bride and bridegroom left for Oxford, where a brief honeymoon is to be spent. On March 6th they will lea,ve for their future home in Sydney. Mrs Turner and her daughters, who aro well-known in the Canterbury province, came to England about 15 years ago.