Cook Is. Wedding
pp. 49-50 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, March 4.
AN, interesting wedding took place on February 22, when Mr. Ronald Powell, globe-trotter, and author of “I Sailed in the Morning” married Miss Elisabeth Marsters. The ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. William Watson, a local trader, by Mr. Stephen Savage.
Mrs. Powell is a member of the Pal merston Island Marsters family, and lived there until five years ago, when she came to Rarotonga as a school teacher. With the aid of the newly installed radio station at Palmerston,
the Islanders there were advised of the event and, at the time of the ceremony, a special service was held in their tiny church.
Mr. Powell, in the course of a short speech, said that he had seen and lived in very many parts of the world, in cluding famed Tahiti, but the day he sighted Rarotonga from the deck of the schooner he felt that this was to be his last port.
Captain Charles Whitehead, of Sama ra!, Papua, who has been in Papua for over 40 years, recently celebrated his 75th birthday. This grand old pioneer was greeted by many Papuan friends on his birthday.
Mr. H. T. C. Harlie Messenger, who for some years was engaged in com mercial flying on the New Guinea Gold fields and later took over the Iboki plan tation, in the Talasea district of New Britain, died on March 8. He enlisted for active service overseas recently but was discharged owing to ill-health. After the last war he was a pilot in the RAF, and served in Iraq.