MORNING TEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 49, 27 February 1935, Page 12

MORNING TEA.

Travel club at titirangi.

On Monday morning members of the ladies' committee of the Auckland Travel Club motored up to Hotel Titirangi for morning tea, the guest of honour being Mies Esther Boyer, hostess on R.M.s. Franconia. Mies Boyer gave an intereeting insight into life on board a luxury liner making a world cruiee. The musical teas, the contract bridge tournaments, the balsde tete (fancy headdress worn with evening clothes), French tea parties, where all gueete were expected to converse in French, and the various sports and pastimes, so beloved on ocean voyages, were described. Short sketches of famous end interesting personalities met on various cruises were also given by Miss Boyer. ! After tea those present were guests of the manager of the Hotel Titirangi at the treasure house museum, where Mr. Peat, the proprietor, showed rare specimens of kauri gum. As a souvenir of her visit to Titirangi Miss Boyer accepted a photograph of the bushencircled Hotel Titirangi, and on the back of the photograph the following Indies placed their autographs by request:—Meedames Victor Macky, J. S. Brigham, J. T. F. Mitchell, Atkinson, J. W. Tattersfield, H. T. Merritt, J. C. Wicketeed, N. S. Walker, Chas. Martyn, ("J. T. Wilson, Lawn (Christchureh), A. Ccrutty, J. N. Greenland, Raymond Sheath, Dr Gladys Rowley, Misses Brigham and Donald.