Nuhaka Wedding

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 13

Nuhaka Wedding

Bartlett—Bluck Four Sisters a\ Bridesmaids The Anglican Church, Nuhaka, was the scene of a very pretty wedding last Saturday when Eileen Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs N. Bluck, Nuhaka, was married to Carl Nicholas, youngest son of Mrs. J. Bartlett, Napier. The Rev. C. E. Hyde, Wairoa, performed the marriage ceremony, and Miss E. Ross officiated at the organ. The church had been attractively decorated in gold and white flowers by friends of the bride. Escorted by her father, the bride presented a charming picture in ivory lace over satin and finished with a shoulder spray of orange blossom. She wore an embroidered veil finished with a top knot of orange blossom and carried a beautiful bouquet of snowdrops, maidenhair fern and silver streamers.

The bridesmaids, Misses D. Glynan, Beryl, Ruth, Noleen and Rosaline Bluck, were all dressed alike in cream lace effect taffeta with golld trimmings. Misses D. Glynan, Beryl and Ruth Bluck wore small gold-spotted veils with a spray of gold flowers and maidenhair fern to form a top knot, while Misses Noleen and Rosaline Bluck wore bands with a gold spray on the side. Miss Glynan’s bouquet consisted of lackinalias and maidenhair fern with gold streamers, and the four sisters carried posies of golden polyanthus. The duties of best man were capably carried out by Mr. Len Bell. Napier. At the conclusion of the ceremony a delightful supper was held in Unity Hall, Nuhaka. T.he bride’s mother looked charming in a navy costume, with accessories to match. She carried a beautiful bouquet of scarlet anemonies, japonica and daphne, relieved with gold streamers. The bridegroom’s mother wore a clover pink frock with accessories to tone. Her bouquet consisted of stock, anemones' and ranunculi in the same tunings. Later the bride and bridegroom left for a . tour of the north, the former looking smart in a navy costume with hat and shoes to match.

Woman’s Success The only woman in New Zealand to gain the Government certificate awarded by the Poultry Division of the Department of Agriculture for chicken sexing is Mrs. F. D. Carter. Prebbleton, Christchurch. The award was made on Wednesday after she had passed with 93 per cen* degree of accuracy in an examination conducted in Christchurch by the chief poultry inspector, Mr. L. W. C. Cocker. The other three candidates, all men, were not successful in gaining 90 per cent, the standard fixed for official recognition.

The New Zealand certificate for this highly specialised art of determining the sex of day-old chicks is much more difficult to obtain than similar certificates in many other countries. Though there are a few men in the North Island and one or two in the South who are engaged in this type of work, the majority of them have received their certificates in Australia.

Mrs. Carter has her own hatcheries at Prebbleton, and during the three years she has been engaged in the work she has determined the sex of 305,000 chickens.

Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference The year 194 U will be known in .sew Zealand as the year of conferences. Chief :n importance for women ...L be the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, the fifth of its kind and the nrst to be held south of the Equator.

Hitherto these conferences have oecn divided into sections, such as

.ealih, education, and women in protessions. This time the plan will be ainerent, and the fundamentals of life and society will be discussed from the points of view of the east and the west. Economic questions have always been prominent at former conferences, until, at the last, one of the delegates from Asia pointed out that fundamental changes in the cultures of the Pacific peoples was being neglected.

Round Table Subjects

There will be two topics at this fifth conference, these being the “Economic Interdependence of the Pacific Countries” and “Cultural Contributions of the Pacific Peoples.” Arranged in this way, the delegates from each great type of civilisation will be able to put their case, and it is felt the conclusions will be most interesting and illuminating.

New Zealand people, of course, have their own ideas on the first topic, dealing with economic independence, and it is extremely probable the delegates will be subjected to many questions by both eastern and western representatives. The second topic will offer scope for some interesting discussions. Some of the subjects suggested for the round tables are as follows: —The change in family systems and woman's place in the social system: the different conceptions of family, from the small family of the western industrialised nations to the almost tribal families of the east.

Sharing of Cultures

Another point that,is likely to provoke discussion is the matter of restrictions where a married woman tries to continue her outside work, and the loss to society entailed by compelling a married woman with a trained mind to retire from public life. Leisure and the arts will also be discussed.

Each country has been asked to describe what it considers is most valuable in its culture and how best it can be shared with others. For that, it is felt, is the real object of all conferences, to share what is best in cultures, hoping that by doing so ways may be found of lessening the ills of the rapid changes that have occurred :n most peoples during the last cen•.urv and a-half.