CL and Tahiti Families
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Sept. 20.
TWO well-known Rarotonga and Tahiti families were united when Mr. Hugh Norman McKegg married Miss Marion Purea Brander on September 3, at the palace of Makea Tinirau Ariki. The of ficiating clergyman was Rev. Cater, of the L.M.S. Church.
The bridegroom is a nephew of Mr.
Robert McKegg, general manager of the
Cook Islands Trading Co. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. John Tearii nui-o-Tahiti Brander, a member of one of the oldest families in Tahiti.
The best man was Mr. Philip Woonton, the “pearl king” of the Northern Cooks; and the bridesmaid, Miss H, Framhein, daughter of the late Captain Framhein, one-time trader on Mauke Island. The pretty flower girls were Ella Hoff, grand daughter of the late Captain A. Von Hoff, another old-time trader of the Cook Group, and Darling, a granddaughter of Makea Tinirau, paramount chief of the Cook Islands.
Mr. L. Luscombe, of the A.W.A. station at Thursday Island, has been transferred to Darwin to supervise the new directional finding station there. Mr. Gerald Walters is now in charge at T. I.
Rev. A. C. Hobson, of the Diocese of Polynesia, will visit the Cook Islands in November, returning to Suva, Fiji, just be fore Christmas.,
The Wedding Group