GARDEN PARTY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 2

GARDEN PARTY

MRS C. S. THOMAS’S GUESTS To give her friends an opportunity of enjoying the beauty of her garden in Innes road, Mrs C. S. Thomas held a large out-of-doors reception yesterday afternoon. The weather was perfect and the banks of lovely irises bordering the stream were a beautiful sight in the bright sunshine, while colourful rhododendrons and stately arums, mirrored in the water, were much admired. Mrs Thomas wore a smart frock ot white crepe very finely pin-striped with navy and trimmed with rouleau of the material and navy buttons, and her wide navy straw hat was trimmed with navy and white ribbons. Mrs Trevor Thomas (Ashburton), who is her guest, wore a wineberry floral crepe frock patterned in rose and biskra and a brown straw hat. Misses Helen ’Thomas. Molly Thomas, and Lvdia Gould helped the hostess in entertaining her guests, amongst whom were Mrs W. W. Dunsterville, Mrs Cyrus Williams and Miss Lucy Williams, Mrs Ronald Cuthtaert, Mrs J. R. Cuningham and Miss Joan Cuningham, Mrs T. S. Johnstone, the Misses Way, Mrs Fred Anderson, Mrs Leonard Wilson, Mrs R. E. McDougall, Mrs R. J. Richards and her father, Mr Carter (England), Mrs A. E. Flower, Miss E. Bull, Mrs H. Lightband, Mrs Grierson, Mrs W H. Orbell, Mrs A. J. Dunn, Mrs BAY. Wynne-Yorke. Mrs A. B. Pearson, Miss C. Lowe, Mrs David Matson and her daughter, Mrs Hobson, Miss Hale, Mrs Percy Wright Mrs Hamilton Gould, Mrs Mervyn Stevenson, Mrs Charles Beadel and Miss Maberley Beadel, Miss Orbell, the Misses Bower, Mrs Harrison and Miss K. Harrison, Mrs H. H. Knight, Mrs J C Newton, Mrs E. R. Webb and Miss' Betty Webb. Miss Alice Newton, Miss May Newton,- Mrs Edwin Hamilton, Mrs Langford Symes, Mr and Mrs Herbert Hudson, Mrs J. D. Fairhurst, Mrs Charles Wood, Mrs Gifford Moore (Palmerston North), Mrs J. S. Middleton, Mrs C. Herbert Lawrence, Mrs R W. Anderson, Miss Effle White, Mrs J G. Hawkins, Mrs Alfred Evans and Miss Hazel Evans, Miss K. Westenra, Mrs Euan Macfarlane, Mrs W. Chapman, Mrs H. G. Martin, Mrs P. B. Hume, Miss E. Edridge, Mrs D. Sinclair Murchison, Mrs Bigg-Wither, Miss Waller, Miss E. Stubbs, Miss M. Stubbs, Misses Gibson, Miss May Thomas, Miss Twentyman.