ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 23

ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

Tlie monthly social afternoon held by the English-speaking Union took place yesterday, when an open .afternoon was held and visitors invited.

In consequence there was a particularly large attendance, the function being held in the conference hall of the Dominion Farmers’ Building, which had been decorated for the occasion. Mrs. Bennie welcomed the guest, and explained the aims and objects of the union to draw together the English-speak-ing peoples of the world. ’ Afterwards Miss Craig sang, and Miss Barbara Putnam gave a short talk on the Greek dance and illustrated this with a number of movements.

Afternoon tea followed and brought the afternoon to a close.

“Miss Frances Torlesse,” says a" recent issue of the ’“New Zealand News” (London), “who has been living in Sussex for a number of years, has now come to London to reside. Miss Torlesse is a niece of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the founder of New Zealand, and is probably the only living link with the historic occasion of Wakefield’s departure for New Zealand in the Minerva nearly seventyeight years ago.”

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