Marriages and Engagements

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XV, Issue 1, 1 January 1922, Page 47

Marriages and Engagements

Sister Ruby Baker, trained at Nelson Hospital, and lately at the Samoa Hospital, returned to New Zealand m December. She is to be married to Mr. Saunders shortly.

Sister Looney is married to Mr. Muir, of Wellington, where she will reside m the future.

The engagement is announced of Nurse Wenefride S. Baker ("Sally"), lately matron of the Dilworth Home, Auckland, to Dr. Lempriere. Miss Baker is a sister of Dr. Eleanor Baker, of the Health Department, and was trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

A largely-attended and pretty wedding was solemnised at Christ Church, Whangarei, by the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, when Miss Mary Gnay, recently a member of the nursing staff at the Whangarei Hospital, was married to Mr. Jack MacKay, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. MacKay, of Ponsonby. The bride, who was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. W. J. Daw r son, wore a pretty white crepe de chine wedding dress, trimmed with real Limerick lace, and the customary bridal veil and orange blossoms. She carried a pretty bouquet of roses and carnations. After the ceremony, a wedding breakfast, to which nearly a hundred guests had been invited, took place m the Parochial Hall, amongst those present being the nurses and superintendent of the Hospital, and the usual toasts were honoured and felicitous speeches made at the function. Mr. and Mrs. MacKay will reside at Mount Albert, Auckland.