Suva Resident Weds
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
In Sydney
Lieut. J. Macgregor Dowsett, AIF, formerly of Rabaul, who has been ill, is now convalescent, in Queensland.
Mr. Wally Corden, formerly of Wau, NG, is at present a resident of Queens land.
Corporal Jack Baird, son of a well known Suva resident, who was with the AIF in Malaya, is officially reported a prisoner of war.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Honson leaving St.
Philip’s Church, York Street, Sydney, after their wedding on September 25.
Mr. Honson met his bride, formerly Miss Betty Wong, of Maroubra, NSW, when they were returning by ship from Hongkong five years ago.
She was then a school-girl of 15 and, although they corresponded, they did not see each other again until Mr. Honson visited Sydney a few months ago. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. G. Honson, a very well-known Chinese family of Suva, Fiji. He was born in the Colony, was educated in China and New Zealand, and returned to join his parents in Suva in 1!)38. Mr. and Mrs. Honson expect to have a honeymoon in New Zealand before returning to Fiji. —Photograph by courtesy of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph.’’
Mr. E. E. Eves, of Lami, Fiji, celebrated his 80th birthday on September 10. He has been 60 years in the Colony.