Chinese Wedding
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Mrs. M. L. Bernacchi, wife of Re lent Commissioner Bernacchi, of e GEIC, has recently been visit g New Zealand.
If Mr. C. G. Francis, of Here Plant ation, Guadalcanal, BSIP, has been appointed a member of the BSIP Copra Board.
One Indian youth was killed, four passengers were hurt, and thirteen others suffered injury when a bus carrying a party of 22 wedding guests from Ba to Suva crashed over a 72-ft bank near Korovou Tailevu, about thirty miles from Suva, on October 30. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and charged with manslaughter.
Rabaul’s first traditional Chinese wedding for years was celebrated in the [?]uomintang Hall on October 29. The photo shows District Commissioner J. R. Foldi [?]rforming the ceremony when Janet Seeto Mary Chew, of Kokopo, married Ng Shui wong James, of Rabaul. After the ceremony, the couple bowed three times to [?]rtraits of Chiang Kai Shek and Sun Yat Sen, hanging on the wall behind Mr. [?]ldi, before leaving the room.
Photo by C. H. Meen.