Plant-Champion Marriage
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HPHE wedding: of Miss Ivane Champion, second generation Anglo-Papuan, and Mr. Harry Plant, of the Department of District Services, P-NG, took place at St. Stephens Cathedral, Brisbane, on April 16.
The bride who wore a gown of white satin and silver lame and a veil of Limerick lace, Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Champion of Port Moresby, and a grand-daughter of Mr, H. W.
Champion, who now lives in Sydney but was Government Secretary of Papua in the days when Sir Hubert Murray was Lieutenant-Governor. The service which H. W. and his sons, Ivan and Claude, have given to the Territory has been tremendous and Ivane herself carried on the Champion tradition when, after the Mt. Lamington eruption in January, 1951, she assisted with the nursing of victims and evacuees in the camps set up in the area.