MORNING TEA PARTY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 2

MORNING TEA PARTY

Miss Jean Edginton, whose marriage to Mr Percy Jowett, of Fendalton, will take place on Saturday, was the guest of honour at a morning tea party given by her sister-in-law, Mrs W. J. Edginton, of Akaroa, in Ballantynes private reception room, Christchurch. The room was gay with bowls of Iceland poppies,' and on the tables were vases of poppies and yellow daffodils. Miss Edginton received many useful and novel green kitchen gifts. Those present were Misses Jean and Nola Edginton, Mrs S. E. N. Jowett, Misses Sheila and Beni Jowett, Mesdames W. J. Edginton, P. Bradldy, T. E. Brown, W. Bowman, S. White, J. Whyte, S. H. Maddren, R. Bruce CAkaroa). Misses Sim, Spencer, Grace Telford, Joyce Bowman, and Phyllis Thompson. BALL AT WEST MELTON At West Melton, the potato pickers of Halkett held their annual ball, controlled by an energetic committee, with Mr Len Roper as secretary. Novelty dances were won by Miss L. Lemon and Mr A. Calder, Miss A. Thomas and Mr R. Roper, and Mr J. A. Wilson and partner. 1 Music for the dancing was played by 4 Jackson’s - orchestra, and the masters of ceremonies were Messrs J. M. Wilson. B. Calder, and R. Roper. Among those present were Mesdames J. F. Madden. M. Wilson, R. J. Northcott, W. Edward, C.S. McKay, B. Ford, J. M. Wilson, A. McKay, H. Walker, D. Grieve, Misses Mary Johnson. M., Hughes, Jean Calder, K. Grieve. Linda Lemon, Nancy Lawrey, Ethel Fronting. Una Walker, Ena Henderson, Rima Begg, Margaret Walker. Daphne Stewart. Gertrude Carroll (Christchurch), Alice Thomas, Madge Rickerby (Lincoln), Florence Luxton, Molly Guilford. Betty Burieigh, B. Shearer, Billy Murry, Elsie Bush, Violet Thompson, Ngaire McKay, Jean Ashby.

A pair of kid gloves that At into a walnut shell are a. feature of the North Island exhibit in the women’s section at the New Zealand Centen nial Exhibition. They were the property of an early settler’s wife in New Plymouth, and are included in tnq loans section. The loans section is a part of the women’s exhibit that is rich in historical association, for each artide reveals not only exquisite craftsmanship, but als 9 the nature of the treasured possessions of the women who faced life in a new country after being brought up inthe comfort of their English homes. The kid glove exhibit is arranged so that one glove is unfolded and the other. packed into one half of a walnut shell to illustrate the fine quality of the material.