Wedding In Honiara
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, May 30.
THE marriage took place at Honiara, BSIP, on May 20, of Miss Kathrine Blanche Mitford-Burgess, of Talaga Bay, New Zealand, Sister-in-Charge, Central Government Hospital, Matanikau, to Mr. Peter Benedict Flynn of Honian.
The ceremony, held at the Roman Catholic Mission Church at Tanagai, on the Guadalcanal coast near Honiara, was performed by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Aubin, Roman Catholic Bishop of the South Solomons, and was followed by a Nuptial Mass, the first that has ever' been cele brated in the British Solomon Islands.
During his 42 years as a priest, Bishop Aubin has celebrated only one other Nuptial Mass—in France during his re cent absence on leave.
In the evening, a large reception was given for the bride and bridegroom by Mrs. J. S. McKenzie Pollock, wife of the Senior Medical Officer. Mr. and Mrs.
Flynn will live in Honiara.
Mrs. Flynn is the third nursing sister at the Central Hospital who has left to be married during the past eighteen months.