FASHIONABLE WEDDING.
LONDON'S LADY MAYORESS. AUSTRALIA'S CONGRATULATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Nov. 6. The first wedding in St. Paul's Cathedral for 16 years was solemnised to-day. The brido was London's Lady Mayoress, Miss Ethel Pryke, daughter of the retiring Lord Mayor, Sir W. R. Pryke, and the bridegroom Mr Cyril Turner. Crowds watched the bride ride from the Mansion House, in' a .golden coach, p As a recognition of the bride's compliment in having Australian currants and butter used in her wedding cake Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, on behalf of the people of the Commonwealth presented her with a bushman's axe in silver. He sent the following message:—'Australia offers her congratulations to the Lady Mayoress and begs her acceptance of the accompanying bushman's axe, a symbol of th'e pioneering spirit which animated the builders of our great Empire, and which she trusts will be deemed worthy of use in cutting the Lady Mayoress' Empire bridal cake."
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 7
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161FASHIONABLE WEDDING. Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 7
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