GOLDEN WEDDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1943, Page 2

GOLDEN WEDDING

MR AND MRS REG. PINHEY.

GATHERING IN MASTERTC&T

TODAY.

Fifty-years ago, in 1893, the wedding of Mr and Mrs Reginald Pinhey (now of 7 Chapel Street) was celebrated at the Methodist Church, Masterton, by the Rev John Dukes. The golden wedding celebrations were held today Jt the home of their daughter, Mrs Robert Chamberlain, Rosewood Farm, Manaia Road.

Mrs Pinhey knee Mary Healy) came to New Zealand from Hobart, Tasmania, when a child, and apart from her early life which was spent in Christchurch, and a brief sojourn in Wellington, she has lived continuously in Masterton since then. Mr Pinhey, who came to New Zealand from Kingsbridge, Devonshire, in the Ruapehu in 1889, has recently been living in retirement after long years of association with the town as one of its best known and popular cab-owners. Of a family of four, three daughters are still living (the youngest daughter only surviving until her 15th year of age), and these include Mrs Grooby of Wellington. Mrs Ives, wife of the Rev Leonard Ives, of Okatu Vicarage, New Plymouth, and formerly of Eketahuna, and Mrs R. Chamberlain, Manaia Road. In addition, Mr and Mrs Pinhey adopted, soon after their marriage, one of Mr Nelson Pinhey's children, left motherless at that time, and who later, as Riflemen John O. Pinhey. took part with other Mastertonians in the first world war of 1914-18. He is today living in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Pinhey have seven grand-daughters and a grandson to share in the family felicitations usually associated upon such memorable occasions.—N.J.B.