Judd - Compton Wedding
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Miss Denise Elaine Judd, Only
child of the late Colonel C. C. Judd, of Morobe, New Guinea, and Mrs.
F. McCormack, now of Toowoomba (QJ, was married in Melbourne in December to Captain David Compton, of the Aus tralian Staff Corps. She was given away by Colonel J. Walstab and attended by Mrs. B. Gurr and Miss Winsome Hardaker.
Guests at the reception included Mrs.
Orton Townsend, aunt of the bride, Mrs.
H. A. Gregory, Captain and Mrs. Frank McCaffrey, Lt.-Col. Tim Tape, Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Ben Dawson, Robin Mantle and Lindsay Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Schindler arrived in Brisbane recently by plane from New Guinea. Mr. Schindler, who is in charge of the Government Experimental Station at Aiyura, in the Central Highlands, is on three months’ vacation.
After a fortnight in Fiji, an Australian, Mr. w B Tann er recently returned to Sydney. He said that living in the Colony was too expensive. Eggs were 3/6 a dozen, if you could get them. Bread was 9d. a loaf and soap, at 1/3 a cake, almost unprocurable. Fiji, he said, had not been what he expected. He had gone there as a health officer but had re signed after two weeks.