Suva Wedding

Empire People Meet At

MISS Margaret Sampson, late of Bris bane, and Mr. Kenneth Wilkie, of the Shell Oil Company, were mar ried at the Pro-Cathedral, Suva, on April 30, by the Bishop of Polynesia. The bride was given away by Mr. R. H. (“Dick”) Bentley, of Suva; Miss Esmae Taylor was bridesmaid; and Mr. Wesley Woodward was best man.

The bridegroom (“Ken,” as he is known to his many friends in Suva), at one time spent two years in New Guinea, but is an Australian. The bride is a Canadian lass; Esmae Taylor claims New Zealand as her homeland: while “Dick”

Bentley was born in the Colony. It was a representative little Empire group.

After the ceremony, guests were enter tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Len.

Bentley, among those present being the Bishop and Mrs. Kempthorne, Mr. and Mrs. John Trotter, Mr. and Mrs. Lawlor (all of Fiii), Miss Jean Leonard (Scot land), and Lieutenant Davies (England).

Laugh, and the worlds laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

The US submarine “Sturgeon” radiod to its flagship after sinking its first Jap ship: “Sturgeon no longer virgin.”

A number of members of the Fiji Naval Volunteer Force are now serving outside the Colony and already have been in action against the enemy. They are in charge of Lieutenant T. H.

Andrews.

Under a recent agreement between underwriters in the United Kingdom and Australia, insurance over goods, while on land awaiting transhipment, may be extended indefinitely. This came into force from April 15, 1943. Prior to that, goods landed at Pacific ports to await transhipment could not be covered against war risk under marine insurance policies for more than 15 days.