SILVER WEDDING

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16583, 16 November 1921, Page 9

SILVER WEDDING

| MR ANT) MRS JOSEPH CLARK. • The celebration of the silver wedding i of Mr and Mrs Joseph Clark, of Bordes- ! ley Street, Linwood, took the form of a | social evening, and was held in the j Y.P. Hall, S.A., Fitzgerald Avenue, on i Monday night. A large number of in- ! vited guests assembled. Commandant ; Lord presided. After supper and the j usual quota of wedding cake had been j distributed, the chairman called upon j representative speakers, who had come into personal touch with Mr and Mrs Clark, and these in turn voiced appreciation of their excellent qualities. The speakers were Messrs Freeman, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Commandant Baylis and Adjutant Rimmer. Mr Clark responded in a very pleasing speech, dwelling on the spirit of friendship which they had enjoyed • since they had made their home in New Zealand. 1 ‘ For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow ” was sung, after which the company adjourned to the large hall, where games interspersed with musical and vocal items were the order, and were contributed by Misses Carpenter and Townsend and Messrs J. Mayfield and T. Armstrong, besides a vocal duet by Mr and Mrs F. Smith. On behalf of the local Salvation Army Corps Band Air IT. Holden presented the guest, who is the corps’s bandmaster, with a silver cake ‘■tand and butter dish, Air Clark (responding briefly. Air L. Alayfield. together with Mr Clark, snr., made further references to the good qualities of the recipients. Mr and Airs Clark were married at St Andrew’s Church, Shoelmryness. Essex, England, by the ; Rev E. A. Causton, and came to this Dominion some ten years back.