Newly-Married Couple Among Passengers

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29747, 14 February 1962, Page 12

Newly-Married Couple Among Passengers

(New Zealand Press Association)

GISBORNE, February 13.

A Gisborne bride and her New South Wales husband, who were married in Gisborne on December 4, were passengers in the missing plane. They are Mrs Valerie Gay Saville, aged 22. formerly Miss Bignell, of Waipaoa, about 10 miles from Gisborne, and Mr Elwyn Saville, aged 20, a son of Mr and Mrs R. Saville, of

Corronbong, New South Wales.

Mrs Saville three years ago went to New South Wales where she was employed as a doctor’s secretary in a Sydney sanatorium and hospital in Fox Valley road, Wahroonga. Her future husband then worked on the hospital farm. She returned with him in November to be married in the Seventh Day Adventist Church at Gisborne

After a fortnight’s honeymoon the couple returned to Gisborne and were touring the South Island before returning to Sydney. They were due to leave Auckland in the Canberra on February 28 accompanied by Mrs Saville’s parents, Mr and Mrs F. Bignell.

Mr Bignell is farming at Waipaoa. Mrs Saville has eight brothers and sisters. A Sydney cable message says Darrell Shiels. aged 33, of Water street, Balmain, was on the first stages of a world tour. He is single, and a clerk at Tooheys brewery He is the son of Mr and Mrs C. W. Shiels. and has a sister.

Relatives of the other Australian aboard the aircraft. Lewis Rowan, aged 25, single, said he was a storeman formerly of Burns Philp and Company. Ltd., at Lae. New Guinea. He was on a tour of New Zealand for an indefinite period.