Bertha Sydney Burrill (c.1890-1970) aged 19.

Bertha married Mark Briggs - flax worker, conscientious objector, Palmerston North businessman and member of the Legislative Council - in 1920. They had one daughter Joan.

Mark Briggs (1885-1965) was a flax worker, conscientious objector, Palmerston North businessman and member of the Legislative Council.

He was particularly noted as being one of the fourteen New Zealand conscientious objectors who, in 1917, was transported to France during WWI. On his return to New Zealand he took up his auctioneering business in Cuba Street and led an active public life. He married Alberta (Bertha) Burrill in 1920.

This photograph was taken when he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1936, aged about 51 years.