Wedding In Rabaul
pp. 63-64 · Read in the full issue
MISS JEAN BIGNELL, daughter of Mrs. Charles R. Bignell, licensee of the Hotel Rabaul, was married on January 5, in Rabaul, to Mr. Dudley L.
Roberts, at the Methodist Church. Miss Jean Bignell, a pretty and charming girl, accompanied her mother to Rabaul when the latter took over the Hotel Rabaul in 1937. Mrs. Bignell and her two daugh ters, Margaret and Jean, previously had lived in the Solomon Islands, where the family still are the owners of a coconut plantation.
Mr. S. D. Anderson, accountant of the Kavieng branch of W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., arrived in Sydney by the De cember “Bulolo”, and proceeded to Vic toria and, later, Tasmania, to spend, three months’ furlough.
Mrs. Roger Greene, wife of the ac countant of the British Phosphate Com mission at Ocean Island, was killed re cently in a motor accident at Narrabri N.S.W. She was formerly Miss Isobel Irwin, and before her marriage was matron of the hospital at Ocean Island and was previously in New Guinea. Mr Greene’s family is well-known through out the Central Pacific—his father was secretary to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell) some 15 years ago, and his brother, Mr. T. A. Greene, is serving now in the Western Pacific High Commis sion.