Islands Wedding In Sydney
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MISS Anna Laurenson, well known in Apia, Samoa, married Mr. Gordon W. Smith, at Pitt Street Congrega tional Church, Sydney, on Saturday, July 5.
Mr. Smith (an old boy of King’s Col lege, Auckland) has been engaged in gold-mining at Bougainville and at Wau, TNG, and he was at Wau when, last year, he enlisted in the AIF. He was discharged recently, owing to illness; but he is now well again, and is about to proceed to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, as a member of Mr. Theodore’s new gold-seeking expedition. The new
Mrs. Gordon Smith will remain, for the present, in Sydney, where she has many friends.
Mrs. Steinberger attended the bride, and the bridegroom was supported by Mr. Eric Ramsden, honorary secretary of the Pacific Islands Society (of which the young couple are members). Sergeant Alfred Page, AIF, gave the bride away, and subsequently proposed her health at the reception held at his home at Bronte, where Mrs. Page (Lefagoalii) and Mrs.
Smith, the bridegroom’s mother, received the guests.
From left: The bridegroom, Mr. Gordon Watson Smith, the bride (formerly Miss Anna Laurenson of Apia, Samoa), Mr. Eric Ramsden (honorary secretary of the Pacific Islands Society), and Mrs. Jean Steinberger (wife of Dr. Steinberger, of Sydney), who was matron-of-honour. —Photo: May Moore, Sydney.