New Guinea's First Post

War Wedding

FIRST post-war civilian wedding in New Guinea took place at Lae re cently in the home of the District Supervisor, Mr. Farlow.

The bride was Miss Anice Beales, form er science mistress at St. Margaret’s School, Clayfield (Brisbane); and the bridegroom Mr. Aubrey Schindler, super visor of the Government experimental farm at Aiyura. He is the son of Mr.

C. S. Schindler, lecturer in languages at the University of Queensland.

The bride and bridegroom drove to the ceremony in a jeep, and to the reception in a car whic hwas gaily decorated by the natives with flowers and ferns. A cavalcade of jeeps transported the guests to the reception, which w’as held on board the“Montoro,” on which the bride had come from Brisbane.

The bride’s attendant was Mrs. Ned O’Brien and the groom’s best man, Mr.

Peter Swanson. Among the guests were: Mrs. Doris Booth, Captain Dudell (of the “Montoro”) and first mate (Mr. Farquhar- Smith).

An unfortunate sequel was that the bridal pair were quarantined in Lae for a fortnight, because of an outbreak of

measles on the “Montoro.”-

J.M.H.