SPOONER, Richard Edwin, to WALKER, Valerie Power.

No. 90, 4 August 1944, St Andrew's Church,  Whareama.

GROOM: Richard Edwin SPOONER, 24, Soldier, Bachelor, born Martinborough, staying Masterton, usually living Martinborough;

FATHER: Howard SPOONER, Farmer (Decd);

MOTHER: Margaret Winifred Blanche SPOONER, nee TONKING.

BRIDE: Valerie Power WALKER, 22, Spinster, born Walton on Thames, Surrey, England, living Wellington.

FATHER: John Vivian WALKER, Farmer;

MOTHER: Doris Ingram WALKER, nee POWER.

Married by W Tye

WITNESSES: Mary Spooner, Nurse, Featherston;

J. S. WAAKA, Farmer, Beaumont;

R B CAMERON, Farmer, "Waitoi."

Richard died in 2009 and Valerie died in 2000.