LATE AFTERNOON RECEPTION

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27489, 25 October 1954, Page 2

LATE AFTERNOON RECEPTION

VISITORS FROM LONDON ENTERTAINED Colonel A. T. Maxwell, deputychairman of the Australia and New Zealand Bank, Mrs Maxwell, and Miss Maxwell (London), who are spending a few days in Christchurch in a tour of the Dominion, were the honoured guests at a very pleasant reception held late on Saturday afternoon by Mr and Mrs R. A. Young. Mrs Maxwell is a daughter of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was a kinsman of the Young family. Mr and Mrs Maxwell, who have previously visited New Zealand, travelled from England by way of America, and their daughter flew to the Dominion to join them at Auckland.

Mrs Young wore an attractive sleeveless frock of blue and white conventionally patterned shantung, Mrs Maxwell’s frock of emerald green silk crepe was finished with a handsome ornament on the deep berthe, and she wore a small hat of folds of pink, emerald and magnolia velvet. Miss Maxwell wore a navy and white spotted frock with dainty white vestee. Among the guests at the party, which was held at Mr and Mrs Young’s home in Cashmere, were Mrs H. A. Young, Dr. and Mrs E. G. Young, and Mr and Mrs Colin Austin.