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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 9

Carson-Berne Wedding

p. 133 · Read in the full issue

Miss Jennifer Berne, of Cooma, NSW, was married at St. James Church, Sydney, on March 33, to Mr. Graeme Carson of the Fead Islands, off New Britain. The bride wore a wedding gown of white Chantilly lace over nylon net.

Mr. Carson is the son of the late Mr. L. W. Carson and of Mrs. E. Carson.

Mr. Carson Sr, was one of the “Monte video Maru” victims and Graeme, at the time of the evacuation, was a small boy.

He was still little more than that when, right after the war, he decided to go back to the Fead Islands and take charge of the family plantation.

r The Administrator of Papua and

New Guinea, Brigadier D. M. Cle

land, and Mrs. Cleland, will return to Port Moresby on April 27, after two months’ leave in Australia,

fl Miss Elizabeth Hennings, of Naitauba Island, Fiji, was in W.

Samoa in March in connection with the proposed film based on the Grimble book, A Pattern of Islands, which it now seems certain will be produced there. She will be in charge of the costumes —a position which she held in connection with the film made in Fiji some time ago —His Majesty O’Keefe.