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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1956Vol. XXVI, No.7

Mackenzie-Shields Wedding

p. 75 · Read in the full issue

Miss Jill Bignold, elder daughter of Mr. Justice E. B. Bignold, of Papua, New Guinea, was married early in January, in Mosman, Syd ney, to Mr. William Pye. t According to our Papeete corre spondents, “numerous jouissances”' were arraged by the city fathers to entertain the crews of the French naval vessels Jeanne d’Arc and La Grandiere, which visited Tahiti late in December. Festivities in cluded a dusk-to-dawn ball. The vessels sailed in continuation of their Pacific cruise on January 3.

Shown at left, the wedding group photo graphed after the marriage in Madang, New Guinea, in December of Miss Marjorie Shields to Mr. Don Mackenzie. Shown, left to right, Mr. Jack Gammon, best-man; Mrs. Thelma Donaldson, matron-of-honour; the bridegroom and bride and M r Tom Warburton, who gave the bride away.