Interesting Overseas Wedding

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7009, 19 November 1932, Page 2

Interesting Overseas Wedding

THOMSON—MACDONALD. A quiet wedding, but one of special New Zealand interest, was solemnised at Ohertsey, Surrey, on October 3. The bridegroom, a New Zealander by birth and formerly living in Gisborne, was Mr. Kenneth John Thomson; the bride was Miss Sheila Christine Dillon Macdonald, oldest daughter of the late Walter Curror Macdonald, of Salisbury, Rhodesia, and of Mrs. Sheila Macdonald, of Cheam, Surrey, now well-known as a writer of stories of South African life. The bride had recently returned from a trip to South Africa, where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. D. S. Blades, of Durban. The bridegroom, who has been living in England for a considerable period, is head of the firm of Messrs. Thomson and Taylor, the well-known engineers and builders of racing cars of which Sir Malcolm Campbell’s “Blue Bird” is their most famous effort. Mr. Thomson was formerly in partnership with Parry, the racing motorist, who was killed on Denbigh Sands in 192 G. Following the wedding ceremony the party drove to Great Fosters, at Egham, where a reception was he'd at which all Mr. Thomson’s racing and flying friends turned up to wish him luck. After tho toasts the party went out into tho grounds to watch two aeroplanes descending and dipping in an air salute. Tho bride wore a dress of brown 'woollen material with collar and sleeves of buff and brown chenille, ann a brown coat with a large collar of lynx. Her hat was of brown and buff, and with her costume her handbag toned. The bridegroom gave his bride a pearl necklace and a dressing-case.