"Give and take” rule for marriage

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32494, 2 January 1971, Page 6

"Give and take” rule for marriage

After 60 years of marriage. Mr and Mrs Arthur Cumberpatch, of St Martins, still say that the golden rule of marriage is “give and take.”( The couple, who have spent all their married life] in Christchurch, are celebrat-; ing their sixtieth wedding! anniversary today. Mrs Cumberpatch, form-! erly Elizabeth Hoffman I Reay, married Arthur Cum-! berpatch on January 2, 1911,! at the Primitive Methodist Church, Cambridge Terrace,! Christchurch, and the cere-! mony was conducted by the!Reverend Samuel Henderson. Since then the couple have lived in many parts of! Christchurch, including St | Albans, Burwood, Cashmere,

and Mr Cumberpatch hash been in his time a fishmonger. |1 I grocer, electrician, and! ! springmaker. I 1 ! “In the early days times! 1 were tough,” Mr Cumber- ' patch said. “But tough’ l times help you to grow-! 1 (closer together. So does! overcoming your vices,” he! ! said . During her leisure timer Mrs Cumberpatch plays cro-! (quet—her main interest! 'outside the home for the I I last 16 years. “We both like to keep ac-| (tive. We still go camping’ ! every holiday in a caravan to! either Nelson or Timaru,” .she said. Mrs Cumberpatch said! both she and her husband; ; had been fortunate enough! ito keep good health all their! lives and were now able to

(enjoy retirement which has lasted 17 years so far. The couple have two children, and three grand-1 children, one of whom, a’ nurse, has been overseas for some time “seeing the world !on a working holiday the way young people like to ,these days." Mr and Mrs Cumberpatch ,said they had made only one I trip out of New Zealand in their lives—a holiday trip to ' Melbourne and Sydney. “But we’ve had a mixed (life and a lot to look back !on,” they said, looking as though 60 years would not really daunt them from ( “doing it all over again.” The photograph shows Mr and Mrs Cumberpatch ( at their home at St Mar- ' tins.