PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 287, 31 August 1935, Page 20

PERSONAL

' DEBUTANTES’ BALL The Governor-General and Lady Galway propose to give a ball, to be confined to younger people, at Government House, Wellington, during the last week in October, at which a limited number of debutantes will be received by, their Excellencies. Applications for presentation should be addressed to the’ Aide-de-Camp-in-Waiting not later than September 14 by the mother or other nearest relative of the prospective debutante, whose Christian name and age should be mentioned.

Miss Nell Brown, Masterton, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. Norman Brett is an Auckland visitor to Wellington. Miss Elaine Newton is a Wanganui visitor to Christchurch. Mrs. A. Weight, Auckland, is visiting Mrs. A. Haworth, Wanganui. Mrs. J. M. Cameron, Masterton, has been spending the week in Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor, Dunedin, are visitors to England. Miss Rosalind Arkwright, who has been visiting Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. Pat Marshall, Lower Hutt.

Mrs. W. Webber, Pelorus Sound, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Herbert Richardson, Plimmerton. Mrs. St. Leger Reeves, New Plymouth, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Quin, Wanganui. Miss Marjorie Bridgman, Wellington, is the guest of Miss Margaret Brinkman, Wanganui. Miss D. Symes, Woodford House, is visiting her mother, Madame Ivo Symes, in Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. J. McKechnie, Wellington, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hague-Smith, Wanganui. Mrs. B. Knuckey, New Plymouth, is the guest of Mrs. W. G. Bassett, Wanganui. ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clabburn, “Supninghill,” Kinross Street, have returned from a visit to Australia. Mrs. J. L. Smaill, Gisborne, is visiting Wellington, and is staying with her sister, Mrs. Cable, Levy Street; Mrs. Hessel Witham, Sydney, who arrived in Auckland this week, will come to Wellington by the Wanganella, due this morning. Miss C. E. Kirk, J.P. (Dominion president), Mrs. M. J. Forde (Dominion secretary), and Mrs. McNair (Dominion treasurer), left for the south last night, and will make final arrangements for the annual conference of the New Zealand National Council of Women, which will open at Dunedin on Wednesday next. Two very distinctive ensembles at Agnes Samson’s are—firstly, a beige' and brown small checked, doque, the very newest material for Summer wear. All street clothes this year are very simple, so the frock is quite plain, finished at the highish neck with two flowers of check and plain brown, and two more at the belt. The straight three-quarter coat is lined with brown, with a scarf collar of the brown silk drawn through slots in the narrow upstanding collar. The second suit is an ensemble of a lovely, dull periwinkle blue woollen georgette. The simple frock is collarless, finished with a bow of the georgette at the neck. The three-quarter straight coat has a scarf tie of the material, and the bell sleeves are finished with bands of beige dyed squirrel. Lovely buttons and buckle of cloudy crystal and silver are decorative features. Both these ensembles are particularly good style and very much worth seeing. Agnes Samson is making a feature this spring of widebrimmed raffia straw hats to wear with cotton or linen frocks. They are very light in weight, and very smart. She has a very tricky little black hat . turned up at the back. A veil with huge red blobs floats over the back. Some people find a light-coloured straw hat hard to wear, but a lovely honeycoloured straw, wide-brimmed, has a black inch-wide facing underneath the brim, which makes it universally becoming. It is simply trimmed with black. Its lines are lovely. Agnes Samson, Lambton Quay.—Advt.