Marriages and Engagements

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1920, Page 201

Marriages and Engagements

At the Anglican Cathedral, Napier, on March 15th, Sister Dora Moore, late of the N.Z.A.N.S., was married to Mr. Pilcher, of Napier, and will make her home there m future. Mrs. Pilcher writes of her trip to Honolulu after the marriage. She says: "If people only knew how well off they were out here m New Zealand, they would not be so keen to get away. The nurse's fee of five dollars a day is certainly tempting, if one is kept going all the time, but then the cost of living is so much more expensive that I cannot see one is any better off. There seems to be some feeling, too, amongst the American nurses against outsiders going to their country, to do nursing, and they do not mind letting one know it, either. Ido not know whether it is owing to the war or not, but Honolulu seemed to be overcrowded with nurses. However, as a visitor I enjoyed the trip immensely, but was quite glad to get back to New Zealand, and am quite content to stay here/ 7

Sister Eileen Holmwood was married on- July 21st, m Tasmania, to Mr. Miehard,

A quiet wedding took place at St. Paul's Church, Auckland, on August 19, the Rev. C. A. B. Watson officiating, of Mr. William Charles Deller, eldest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. Gf. N. Deller, of Car-, terton, to Miss Mildred Doris Jackson, late of N.Z.A.N.S., and youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Goddard Jackson, of Wellington. The bride, who was given away by Mr. M. A. Carr, of Wellington, was attended by her sister, Miss Eva Jackson, as bridesmaid. Mr. E. H. Younig, of Stratford, was best man.

On February 7th, at San Francisco, a marriage was quietly celebrated between Mr. John Moire Pirie, of U.S.A., and Nurse Violet Ring, of Townley St. Helens Hospital, Gisborne. Their future home will be at Stockton, California.

On Friday, July 16th, at the Khandallah Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. D. J. Shaw, Mr. Sidney George Lsherwood, eldest son of Mr. J. C. Isherwood, of Christchurch, was married to Miss Ivy Barbara Siddells, youngest daughter of Mr. James Siddells, of Wanganui.

Nurse Mary Sirett, trained at the Napier Hospital, was recently married to Mr G. P. Poppelwell, and will live at Hastings, H.B.

Sister Margaret Smith, trained at Christchurch Hospital, and late of Karitane, Christchurch, is to be married to Mr. Anderson, of Dunedin.

Sister Sykes, late of staff of Rotorua Sanatorium, was married m August to Mr. Jordan, Pikowai, Matata.

The invitations have been issued for the marriage of Sister Isla Stewart to Mr. Prank Brice, of Petherton Hall, Marton, on October 13th, at St. Stephen's Church, Marton. Sister Stewart was on active service with the N.Z.A.N.S. from 1915 to 1919, and at the beginning of the year started a private hospital with Sister Flower, at Marton,

The marriage of Sister Sybil Porter, recently resigned from the N.Z.A.N.S., took place m Auckland on September 7th, to Eng.-Lieut. J. B. Stevenson, R.N.R. Lieut. Stevenson, who served with the Navy throughout the war, has now taken up farming on the West Coast of the South Island.

Nurse McMichael, trained m Gisborne Hospital, was married m July to Mr. A. L. McCormick, of Waipukurau.

Sister Alice Hayward, of N.Z.A.N.S., was married m Sydney to Mr. A. Barnett, and iioav lives at Manly, Sydney, N.S.W.

Sister Ethelwyn Carruth, late N.Z.A.N.S., was married on August 4th, at Papaptoetoe, to Mr. John Motion, of Maungatawhiri Valley. The Rev. Mr. Porter was the officiating clergyman, and the bride was given away by her uncle, Mr. Carruth, of Whangarei. She wore a beautiful dress of pale blue crepe de chine with wreath and veil. Miss M. Carruth attended as her sister's bridesmaid, wearing a very pretty grey crepe de chine frock. The bride and bridegroom left during the afternoon, en route for Australia, where the honeymoon will be spent.