Another Old Yarn
p. 51 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor IN your issue of June last, among “Fanning Island Memories,” a writer mentions the arrival at the island, in 1915, of Father E. Rougier—which is quite all right. But where it is all wrong is when he adds that the worthy visitor had married a Tahitienne, and had his daughter with him on the schooner “Luka.”
As one who knew Father Rougier well, may I state here, quite plainly, that he never married. As to the lovely girl to whom your correspondent lost his heart, I can give definite proof that she was not his daughter at all. She might have been another passenger on the “Luka” for all we know; a perfect stranger to Father Rougier. And so goes overboard another old yarn.
I am, etc.,
Fiji, 15/9/47.
Seventy.
Mr. W. Washington, well-known planter of New Britain, was married on Sep tember 25, in Rabaul to Miss Dorothy Kent, of Rockhampton, Queensland. The bride, who had no relations in New Guinea, was given away by Mr. W. Bailey.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Ord were best-man and matron of honour. Thirty-seven guests were entertained at the Cosmopolitan Hotel later.