RICCARTON RECORDS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 13

RICCARTON RECORDS

|| EOROUGH NOTES AND NEWS i ii;

Jj By Our Special Correapondeii* ||

WEDDINGS. A very pretty wedding was tele - ibvated at the Clarence Read Methodist Church on Tuesday afternoon, the tonJkt*stixi% parties being Mr Harry Mason at.** i.iiaa Sybil Sutherland, daughter of Mrs C. Sutherland. “ Streatham "House,” Dilworth Street, Ricearton. ;.Tfc© bride was given away by her bro-ther-in-law. Mr Len Orchard. Miss Connie Clarke, of Belfast, was brides maid, and the bride’s brother. Mr Ro land Sutherland, was hest mail. Miss Eva Townsend teas at the organ, and the eongrogwtton sang ** The Voice that 'Breathed O'er Eden ” as the bridal party entered the church. The bride’s dress was of white crepe de chine, enriched with silver lace, and the ved waa in mob-cap style, with sprays of orange blossoms. .She carried a filiowe: ‘bouquet of while flowers. The bridesmaid wore a frock of apricot georgette trimmed with radium lace. hat to trateh. and her bouquet was of apricot rosea. At the reception held afterwards at the residence of the bride’s mother the usual toasts were honoured. Mrs Sutherland wore a handhole frock of wine coloured silk marocain. Mr and Mrs Mason left by motor during the afternoon for the south, the bride’s travelling dress being a dainty threepiece costume of fawn gabardine. shoe« and stockings to match, and a small bat-. The gueats included : Mrs Dawson and Miss Hodgson (aunts of the bride).

Mrs T.en Orchard and son 'sister and nephew of the bride), Mr S. Sutherland (brother of the bride), Mrs C, Boyce 'Cambridge;, Mrs 1). Brown, Mrs .1. Southern (cousins of the bride), Mr T. Wilson (uncle of the bride), Mrs Scales (sister of the bridegroom), Mestlamcs Walters. Southcn, Armstrong, Clark, Townsend. (Jarmson, Misses Barker <3). Thompson (Loburn), Basher, Easton, Burson, Caukwell, Messrs 0. Orchard. Seales (Timaru), Sterling and others. On Wednesday Miss Eva Lulu Gudsell, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Gfidsell. of Picton Avenue, Riccarton, was married to Mr Edwar 1 Seymour, only son of Mr E. Seymour, «n Waitangi, Chatham Islands. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a nigger- brown gabardine costume and biscuit coloured hat, with shoes and stockings to match. Her bouquet was composed of autumn-tint-ed flowers and tulle streamers in niatc-n----ing shade. Mr W. Tyrrell was hest man. The ceremony was performed by the Rev Harris at Cambridge Terraco Methodist Church, after which the biide’s parents entertained a number of guests at BaUaritynehs. Mr and Mrs Seymour left the same •vening *or Wellington, en route to Otaki. where the honeymoon will be sneriT. At the end of the month they will go to their homo at ‘‘The Horns.” the southernmost point of the Chatham Islands.

ST JAMES’S CHURCH. Rev E. H. Shore, for the past thres years vicar of St James’s Church, left on Wednesday to take charge of the Anglican Church at Governor’s Bay. Her H. N. Wright, vicar of St John’*, Christchurch, enters on his work as vicar of St James’s on February 1. It* the meantime services will be conducted by Canon Galway and Canon Coatee. Owing to difficulty in obtaining relieving preachers during the holidays there will be no eight o’clock service to-morrow morning. SWIMMING. WHARENUI CLUBS AMALGAMATE A special general meeting of the Wharenui Ladies’ Swimming Club was held on Wednesday evening at Whareiitii School. Miss TL Brown, ffee club captain, preaided over a fair attendance. The special business before the meeting was to diacuss a proposal that the club should amalgamate with the ■Wharenui Amateur Swimming Club. After full discussion the secretary was authorised t o make a proposition in writing to the men’s club. The mat ter was considered by the W.A.S C. committee on Thursday evening, and the proposal was approved on tVie terms suggested by the Indies, viz. :--(!) That the ladies’ club has reasonable representation on the management commit toe ; (2) that the ••dies’ funds be handed over to the combined club ; (3) races to be arranged for the lady members; (4) a weekly club night for mixed bathing, when races will be held and coaching done : (o) the ladies’ secretary to become assistant secretary, responsible for collection of ladies’ subscriptions. Tt was also decided to ask (ho centre to approve of the addition of a Indies’ 50yds club handicap to the club’s carnival programme, and to obtain estimates of the cost of extending the dressing-room accommodation. The 75yds event in connection with the Challenge Cup was swum at the Coronation Baths on Wednesday evening. There were ten entries and two heats were swum, with a final heat, resulting as follows :-=-First heat -. A Marshall 1. J. Saunders 2. Second heat: A. Jacks 1. G. Watson 2. Final : A. Marshall 1. ,T. Saunders 2, G. Watson 3. PERSONAL. Mr L. Stanton, who has been secretary of the Wharenui Amateur Swimming Club for two season*, has resign. ed. At Thursday night’s meeting a resolution was recorded on the minutes expressing appreciation of his splendid services to the club. Mr G. S. Webb was appointed in his stead. It is unfortunate for the club that Mr Sargent, club captain, finds it impossible to continue in that position owing to pressure of work, and Mr A. L. Sur ridge, a member of the committee, will shortly be leaving the district to take up his residence in Haward^u. Mr S. Hardy, of Maxwell Sreet. has returned from an extended tour of the North Island. Old pupils of the Wharenui School are proud of the fact that one of their number. Miss May Speirs. has annexed the ladies' lawn tennis championship of New Zeeland.