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VICE REGAL PARTY AT OPENING
The Governor-General (Sir Willoughby Norrie) officially opened the Mother Mary Potter Hospice at Calvary Hospital yesterday afternoon. He was accompanied by Lady Norrie, and was attended by Captain A. N. Camp-bell-Harris, A.D.C., and Miss Jean Holloway, lady-in-waiting, ’ attended her Excellency.
Lady Norrie wore a very smart navy frock with . wide leather belt and a small white hat. She was presented by Miss K. O’Connor with a bouquet of pink flowers from the auxiliary that is working in the interests of the hospice. The Mayoress (Mrs R. M. Macfarlane) wore a vieux rose dress and wide black hat; Mrs J. T. Watts, wife of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, wore an oakapple and white patterned short-sleeved frock and a small white hat with a bunch of white flowers on one side; Mrs Lionel Cordery, wife of the president of the Canterbury section of‘the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, wore a suit of green dupion with black collar and a black hat trimmed with an osprey; and Miss Holloway wore a navy frock conventionally patterned in white and a navy and white hat.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27501, 8 November 1954, Page 2
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