Wedding

islands Wedding

Most of Sydney's Tongan community were at the wedding at Sydney University in June of the Rev. Sione Latukesu and Dr. Ruth Fink. The bridegroom's parents (above right) came from Tonga for the ceremony. The couple plan to live in Tonga next year when the Rev. sione completes his Ph D. thesis at the Australian National University. Dr. Fink is lecturer in anthropology at Sydney Uni versity.A Tongan choir sang at the Wesley College Chapel during the service and there was Tongan dancing at the big reception which was also attended by many academics from Sydney and Canberra. Chairman was the Rev. C. F. Gribble, president-general of the Methodist Church of Australasia, who worked for many years in Tonga.—Photos by Harold Brown and PIAA.

une weddings, too, for pretty Suva sisters Emma and Lorna whitcombe (below). Emma was married in Suva to American travel [?]gent Steven Handy (left) and the couple were congratulated by [?]orna and her husband. American Richard Lowe, who had been named in Honolulu the previous week. The Handys are Tokyo-bound, and the Lowes will return to Honolulu.

Another Suva wedding, the bride being school teacher Lois Baines, and the bridegroom Fiji Airways flight engineer Graham Grose. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Gross, of Sydney.

Mr. Grose Snr. was in Rabaul, NG, before the war for W. R. Carpenters.