Irene and Ted McCreath will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with family and friends on Monday. The Rangiora couple, who will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with family and friends on March 16, still have clear, fond memories of their first meeting at the station. Photo: suppliedIrene planned to travel to Auckland by train, but Ted intervened paying for her to fly to the city instead. The couple married a little over two years later, on March 16 in 1956, at Dunedin’s First Church and spent their honeymoon in Oamaru. Ted left the navy before he and Irene married and the couple originally lived in Milton, where Ted drove trucks for a living.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 14, 2026 03:37 UTC