First Post-War Catholic
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Marriage At Madang
THE first post-war Catholic marriage to be celebrated in Madang was solemnised on June 8 by the Rev.
George Bernarding, SVD, Rector of the Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost, Alexishafen. Miss Adelaide Mary Hop kins, of Seymour, Victoria, was married to Mr. Chas. Augustus (“Gus”) Mitchell, formerly of Highfields, Toowoomba, and now with the Department of Works and Housing, Madang.
Mr. E. J. Kernan (Education Officer) was best man, and Miss Theresa Maud O’Brien, a well-known Madang resident, charmingly filled the duties of brides maid. The bride was given away by Mr.
J. A. Crockett.
The bridegroom served with the 2nd AIF in the Middle East, and is a son of the late Mr. F. A. C. E. Mitchell, who was one of the best-known pioneer cattlemen in the early days of Queens land.
The reception was held at the resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Roy, and Pastor W. Gander, Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission, acted as Master of Ceremonies with his customary witti cisms and joviality.
Dr. Eric Bridgman, formerly of Rotorua, New Zealand, has taken up his duties in Western Samoa as Medical Officer at Apia Government Hospital There is still a shortage of medical officers in Samoa and it has been sug gested that private medical practitioners be invited and subsidised in order to im prove medical services.