WANGANUI GIRL MARRIED IN MELBOURNE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 14, 17 January 1946, Page 2

WANGANUI GIRL MARRIED IN MELBOURNE

STAFF OF HOSPITAL SHIP ORANJE PRESENT

There were many pleasant gatherings.c.n board the hosp.tai ship Oranje. One of the last occasions on which all the ship's staff gathered together was at the wedding in Melbourne of Isabel McNiven, of Wanganui, to Mr. M. Jackson, a Scottish orderly of the R.A.M.C. staff. They had been engaged a few weeks, and when they discovered that the nursing unit, would be leaving the ship at Melbourne, decided on a service wedding.

Attended by two of their shipmates, and wearing their smart uniforms, they were married at a pretty little phurch in Ivanhoe. Guests at the ceremony were all service personnel, Dutch, English and New Zealand members of the ship’s staff. Afterwards the bridal party were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Goodey, formerly of Wanganui. The br.de and bridegroom went on to the hospital ship later to see a fellow “Kiwi,” who was ill and unable to attend the wedding, and to whom the bride presented her bouquet. Shortly after the wedding the bridegroom returned with the ship to England. and the bride, who has returned to Wanganui, hopes her husband will be able to get passage to New Zealand soon after he has been demobilised in England. The V.A.D.’s who returned to New Zealand by the Athlone Castle said they had been so far that they were keen to finish the course and go to Japan. “We’ve had a remarkably interesting time since joining the hospital staff of the Oranje, and the breaking up of the ship’s company was sad and disappointing,” said one of the girls. The people in Australia had given them a good time during the two months of waiting for transport home. They visited many different parts of the country and some of them travelled by air to Tasmania and other places. They had been entertained lavishly by Australians in their homes.

to lhe Reserves Committee. The Mayor, Mr. F. Purnell, said the club would receive the co-operation of the council. At a meeting of the Marton Athletic Club on Wednesday night the offer of the Marton Borough Council to advance £25 towards the repair of the track was received with appreciation. The council was thanked for its assist-

Thc committee also derided to abandon the sports meeting s.?l down for March 16 and devote their energies to repairing the track. GENERAL BUSINESS

SI. Stephen’s School was granted exemption from rates on sections which were used as playing areas.

Advice was received from Mr. Riley that the filter plant was shipped from England on January 10. It was resolved that the tender of A. D. Riley and Co. for filter station and accessories at the lower waterworks dam be accepted, and that he common seal of the council be affixed in the presence of the Mayor, Mr. P. Purnell, Cr. Williams, and the town clerk, Mr. McDonald.

The Commissioner of Transport submitted a form of driver’s licence to provide for particulars required for the proposed register of motor drivers. The town clerk said he thought it would prove satisfactory.

The Director of Housing Construction advised that the State Advances Corporation had been requested to submit part culars of applicants for Stale houses relative to the quetsion of the transit camp being established al Marlon. A letter was received from a married couple staling lhe> would be prepared Io go into the transit camp. The Mayor said he would be pleased to receive applical oils for lh< 1 camp as it would not take long to have it established.