GOLDEN WEDDING
ONEHUNGA RESIDENTS MR. AND MRS. D. S. IRELAND The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Ireland, of Onehunga, formerly of Pollok Settlement, Waiuku, will be celebrated to-day at a small gathering of members ot the family. Mr. and Mrs. Ireland were married on April 22, 1889, at the Church of the Assumption, Onehunga. A notable feature of the wedding was the fact that Mrs. Ireland's father had built the church and his daughter was the first bride to be married in it after its erection. Mr. Ireland was born in Scotland and left for New Zealand in JBB3 under engagement to the Mosgiel Woollen Mills when lie was 20 years of age. Later he joined the Onehunga Woollen Mills, when the company was first formed and remained there for 1(5 years, after Which he decided to take up farming. His wife, who was Miss Mary Kemp, was born at sea in the ship Ironsides, in which lief parents were travelling to the Dominion in 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Ireland have four sons and three daughters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23328, 22 April 1939, Page 22
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180GOLDEN WEDDING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23328, 22 April 1939, Page 22
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