Bell-Monk Wedding
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THE new Rector of Holy Trinity Pro- Cathedral, Suva, Fiji, the Rev. H. W.
Figgess, officiated at his first wedding in Fiji when Miss Margery Culford Bell, of Taupo, New Zealand, was married to Mr. Kenneth Arthur Monk, second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Monk, of Sigatoka.
The bride was given away by Mr.
Gordon Fraser. The bridesmaid was Miss Joan Mclntosh; Mr. Charles Kuhn was best man.
The entire bridal party—bride, bride groom, bridesmaid, best man and Mr.
Fraser —had seen war service overseas.
A pearl recently found by a Torres Strait Islander in North Queensland waters has been sold for £550. Islanders have virtually replaced Asiatic labour in the pearl industry and to-day, under the control of the Queensland Government, own and work approximately 40 luggers and cutters.