Multi-Nation Wedding After Mail Engagement
(Sew Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND .July 19. It was a happy United Nations wedding when Shizuko Sato wed Harijs Imants Frederiksens in the Lutheran Church of St John the Evangelist Panmure, on Saturday. The 21-year-old bride, Shizuka, is a Japanese girl from Tokyo, her husband, Harijs, a 31-year-old naturalised New Zealander came from Latvia, the two bridesmaids, Norani Yusof and Muslimah Nain, came from Malaysia, and the minister, Pastor R. Matthies, is an American.
The groomsmen, Vitalijs Bucens and Janis Komsars, were also Latvian-born. The guests also came from many lands. The groom was a foundation member of Students International at Auckland University six years ago and was chairman of the club last year. The couple met in Tokyo last year when Harijs was on a holiday to South-east Asia and Japan. He spent three months in the Japanese capital and there met Shizuko who was working in a bank. Harijs, who has a B.Sc. in chemistry and is now working as an industrial chemist while studying anthropology, part-time, corresponded with Shizuko when he came back to New Zealand and they became engaged by mail.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30498, 21 July 1964, Page 7
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