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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 March 1940Vol. X, No. 8

A Wedding At Rarotonga

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

A MARRIAGE, was celebrated on December 14, in the Avarua Church, Rev. R. L. Challis officiating, between Mr. Ralph J. A. Ingram, of Messrs. A.

B. Donald Ltd., and Miss P. Kelly, of Rarotonga. After the ceremony, a large company sat down to a wedding dinner, at the residence of the bride’s parents, and a very happy day was spent. Mr.

Ingram has been in the employ of Messrs. A. B. Donald Ltd. for some years, and is a very popular member of

the community. The bride is a grand daughter of the late Captain William Kelly, who was a well-known ship’s master in the early whaling days.

Mrs. Ingram, senior, and Mr. Harry Scott (best man) are standing together at the left of the group in the above photograph: the bride and bridegroom are in the centre; and Mr. William Kelly is near the right of the group. —Own correspondent.

Mr. J. Craig, who has given a lifetime of service to the British Colonial Office in various colonies, and who has served for ten years on the Legislative Coun cil of Fiji, latterly as Acting-Colonial Secretary, has decided to retire. At the last meeting of the Fiji Legislative Council the Governor said that all his colleagues sincerely wished him many happy years of well-earned leisure.