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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1939Vol. X, No. 1

Notable Wedding At Papeete

p. 56 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete. July 10.

A CHARMING wedding, notable be cause of the high Islands ancestry of both the bride and groom, was celebrated at Papeete recently when Mademoiselle Mina Raanui Miller was married to Monsieur Henri Peeata a Hio.

His Excellency the Governor and Madame De Gery were present and acted as wit nesses, at both the civil and religious ceremonies.

The bride through her mother is des cended from the royal Opoa clan of Raiatea, and the groom from a family of high chiefs of the same island.

Mr. and Mrs. Terence Gardiner, whose marriage took place in the Dudley Memorial Church. Suva, recently, have settled down now at Navua, where he is on the staff of the Fiji Pastoral Co.. Ltd.

The bride formerly was Miss Norah Gil lon, of Auckland, N.Z.

Mr. Allan Carr, of Rabaul, N.G., mar ried Miss Marjorie Cameron, of Sydney, at St. George’s Church on July 22.