Clive Brewster Married In

Suva

AN Australian war-time romance cul minated in a whirlwind marriage in Suva on July 23, when Mrs. Eve Walker, public relations officer of the British Overseas Airways Corporation was married to Mr. Clive Brewster, chairman of W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., and lately a Wing-Commander in the RAAF.

Mr. Brewster, a decorated veteran of World War I. went to Australia in 1939, and joined the RAAF, where he rose quickly to a high administrative oosition.

Mrs. Eve Walker served in the WRNS for 3£ years, in Australia and New Guinea, and in the course of that service she met

Wing-Commander Brewster.

Mr. Brewster returned to Fiji and Mrs. Walker became Public Relations Officer for BOAC, and was assigned the job of organising public rela tions on the route between Singapore and New Zealand.

She was in Sydney, on her way to Britain, when, at the invitation of Sir Leonard Isitt (New Zealand director of BOAC) she went to inspect the Auckland-Rarotonga ser vice. On Tuesday, July 23, she was on her way back—she was en route from Suva to Nausori, to catch the Dakota for Norfolk Island and Auck land—when she appears to have listened to something said to her by Mr. Brewster.

Within a few hours, they had startled Suva by a sudden marriage.

Mrs. Walker then returned to Auckland as Mrs. Brewster, with Mr. Brewster beside her in the plane. They spent a brief honeymoon in New Zealand, and arrived in Syd

ney on July 31. Both are well-known, and in Suva, Auckland and Sydney they were showered with congratulations and good wishes.

The Methodist Overseas Mission is appealing for £lOO,OOO to re-establish their Pacific mission work.

The Brewsters, just after they had arrived in Auckland from Fiji. —Photo by White’s Aviation.