Riccarton Racegoers Favour Tailored Suits

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 2

Riccarton Racegoers Favour Tailored Suits

NEWS FOR WOMEN

The programme for the second day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting provided pleasure, interest, and excitement for many of the club’s patrons at the Riccarton racecourse yesterday. The weather was sunny and calm, and very pleasant until late in the afternoon, when it was cold enough tb cause many to don warm coats which they had discarded earlier in the day. Suits were most popular with women racegoers and some beautifully-tailored examples were much admired. Grey in a wide range of shades was greatly favoured; many pleated skirts looked well; and gaily-coloured scarves gave a brightening touch to sombre outfits. Mrs Gilbert Grigg, wife of the president of the Canterbury Jockey Club, wore a suit of grey wool, with widelyspaced lines of pink and brown, brown fur necklet, and small brown felt hat. Mrs Derrick Gould, wife of the club’s honorary treasurer, wore a blue and grey pic-a-pic suit, and red hat with upturned brim finished with blue guimpe. In her party were Miss Barbara Gould, Miss Phillida Gould, Mr and Mrs David Gould, and Mr and Mrs Humphrey Gould. Mrs A. T. Burnett, whose husband’s horse, Cogitation, won the Grand National Hurdles, wore a grey suit, while blouse, and emerald green hat and gloves. Miss Susan Grigg wore a grey suit and red blouse to match her red hat.

Among the wives of other officers of the club were Mesdames A. S. Elworthy, K. Austin, J. H. Grigg, H. D. Greenwood, P. D. Hall, W. R. Lascelles, M. G. Louisson, H- M. C. Dampier-Crossley, and B. G. Rutherford. The Visitors The Grand National meeting always attracts visitors from many parts of the Dominion, and this year was no exception. North Island representatives included Mrs Douglas, Mrs Grpome, Mrs Von Dadelszen, Miss J. Glazebrook (all of Hawke’s Bay); Mrs Colin Deans (Masterton), who accompanied Mrs Maurice Macfarlane; Miss Anne Scoones (Wellington), daughter of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, who was with Mrs E. Rhodes; and Miss Eileen Jameson

(Auckland), who accompanied Mrs Cecil Wood, with whom she is staying and Miss Julie Hale (Gisborne). From South Canterbury had come Mrs Maurice Harper and her daughter, Mrs Bernard Thomas; Dr. Elspeth Fitzgerald (Oamaru); Mrs K. H. Hargreaves (Kakahu); Mrs E. C. Studholme and her daughter, Mrs James Hennessy (Waimate); Mrs V. F. Boyle (Geraldine); Mrs George J. Chapman (Salisbury); and from Mid-Canterbury Mrs Brian SavilL A Greymouth visitor as Mrs J. W. Hannan; and another from the west was Mrs David McLeod (Cass). Mrs P. P. L. Dilton, part-owner of Shiver, was a Marlborough representative, and from Oaro had come Mrs Russell Laidlaw.

Visitors from the northern part of the province included Mrs George Macdonald, Mrs M. Bethell, Mrs G. L. Rutherford and Misses Kathleen and Diana Rutherford, Mrs A. J. Blakely and her daughter-in-law, Mrs J. F. G. Blakely, Mrs B. L. Blunden, Mrs J. L. Macfarlane, Mrs T. C. Robinson, Mrs Guy Dampier-Crossley, Mrs J. Ensor, Mrs E. G. O. Rutherford, Mrs C- H. Bethell, Mrs Anthony Rutherford, Mrs J. B. Oxley, Mrs E. M. Gibson, Mrs E. D. R. Smith, Mrs F. Rawson Davison, Mrs J. Hawdon Davison, Mrs A. Gillanders, Mrs A. A. Macfarlane, and Miss Bona Little.

Others present were Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, Mrs Janet Williams and Miss Belinda Williams, Mrs John Elworthy, Miss P. Boyle, Mesdames J. F. Cracroft Wilson, M. H. Godby, F. W. Freeman, T. Morten, George Hutton, Percy Hall, J. K. McAlpine, A. P. Boyle, L. B. T. Allan, G. Dennistoun, Douglas Deans, C- Greenwood, H. E. Gilbert, Gordon Coull, F. F. Reid, G. R. Cracroft Wilson, and Colin Douglas, Miss Anne Douglas, Mesdames F. S. Taylor, Norman Tingey, Leslie Burt, Somers Cox, E. E. Luttrell, D. M. Stewart, Gordon Blaxall, Gordon McCredie, R. H. Livingstone, Alister Guild, T. McKellar, and E. C. Latter, Misses E. and J. O’Donnell, Mrs R. M. D. Johnson, Miss H. Buckhane, Mesdames Neil Guthrie, lan Murchison, Ivan Wood, and H. S. Barker, Misses Helen Douglas, Angela Reid, and Judith Greenwood.