WEDDINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 244, 15 October 1936, Page 2

WEDDINGS

McCANN—N ELSON On September 30, in St. Alban's Church, Wanganui East, a pretty wedding was solemnised when Winifred Marjorie Nelson, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. O. Nelson, was married to Harvey Clive McCann, eldest son of Mr and Mrs R. J. McCann. Rev. J. W. Parkes performed the ceremony. Escorted by her father, the bride was gowned in pale pink taffeta silk, and her veil was held with a pearl halo and orange blossom. She wore silver shoes and carried a bouquet of pink carnations, freesias, sweet peas, and maidenhair fern. Miss Jean Colmer attended as bridesmaid and wore a frock of sea green silk morocain with silver girdle, silver shoes, and halo of sweet peas. Her bouquet was of carnations, sweet peas and maidenhair fern. Mr Max McCann, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man. On leaving the church the bride was presented with a silver horseshoe by Miss Una Colmer. The reception was held at the Rendezvous. SMITH—WALTON LONDON, Sept. 23. The wedding took place on September 21 at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, of Mr Meredith Maurice Smith, son of the late Mr G. Harold Smith, of Pahiatua, and Miss Audrey Ross Walton, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs D. E. Walton, of Auckland, states a London correspondent. Invitations to the wedding had been issued by Mr and Mrs C. Wray, the former being contemporary with the late Mr Smith, and the bridegroom being a partner in the solicitors business of Wray, Smith, and Holford. The three attendants were Mrs C. W. Wrightson (formerly Miss Jean Gordon, of Auckland), matron of honour; Miss Vipan (Dunedin), and Miss Rauma Jeltes. The bride wore a beautiful frock of rich parchment tinted charmeuse, with long court train and voluminous tulle veil surmounted with a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried a sheaf of narcissi lilies. Her attendants were in frocks of for-get-me-not blue figured crepe, slightly trained, with wreaths of velvet petals in pink and blue on their heads. They carried each a sheaf of pink roses. The best man was Dr. R. R. Macintosh, formerly of Oamaru. A great many New Zealand friends attended the ceremony, and then went on to Grosvenor House, where Mr and Mrs Wray wore a frock of rich violet charmeuse and carried a bouquet of white roses. The bride and bridegroom have taken a cottage in the New Forest and have gone there for «their honeymoon. In December Mr and Mrs Smith will leave to visit New Zealand. SPORTS QUEEN’S PLANS MEETING OF COMMITTEE GARDEN PARTY NEXT SATURDAY A meeting of the committee handling the campaign for the sports queen (Miss Joyce Wilson) in the current health camp queen carnival, was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. P. H. Hartland presiding. Arrangements to carry out the garden party at “Arles,” the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Grace, were completed. Owing to weather conditions this event had to be postponed from last Saturday. The Band of the Wellington West Coast Regiment will be in attendance and there will be attractive folk dancing. All the golf clubs have campaigns ready to be launched in the sports queen’s cause, Belmont ladies on Friday, Belmont men over the week-end. A series of entertainments, such as dances and sports afternoons, are in progress of organisation. Bowling and rowing clubs are becoming active in 'the campaign. Competition for a bottle of wine was decided at the meeting, the winner being N. Bamber. An appeal is made for all who respond to the call of the outdoors to rally to the banner of the sports queen. DUCHESS’ IDEAS ON PRAMS NO FRINGED C ANOPIES FOR PRINCE EDWARD Mothers who give careful thought to the welfare of their babes will not be slow to follow the lead that the Duchess of Kent, has given in banishing the fringed canopy for perambulators. When ho sleeps in his dark blue and chromium perambulator. Prince Edward is sheltered from the sunshine by a biscuit-coloured tussore canopy lined with apple green (says the Daily Telegraph). Instead of a silk fringe the canopy has stitched and scalloped edges. A summer pram cover in the same tussore has neatly stitched, but not scalloped, edges to the Duchess’ de--1 sign. When the Duchess ordered these to be made she exclaimed that in her opinion the flicker of the wind among the fringes of the canopy was bad for a baby’s eyesight and tended to make for restlessness. For this reason, too, the inside of Prince Edward’s pram is dark blue and not white, and the body is quite shallow so that he has plenty of fresh air. Many modern mothers have now adopted the two-pram mode, the large model for use in the park during the summer and winter, and a smallerfolding model upholstered in water- | proof, uncrackable fabric, for holldays.