FAREWELL PARTY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 6

FAREWELL PARTY

A delightful dinner party to bid bon voyage to Miss Joy Kirkcaldie, who is leaving for England next week, was given at the Hotel St, George last night. . Dinner was followed by a picture party, and supper at the home of Miss Nancy Scott, Kelburn. The guests were Pat Scott, Joyce Usher, Dorothy Townsend, Helen Mitchell, Leslie Gibbons, Roy "Jamieson, Evan Mitchell, Phillip Littlejohn, Sidney George, and Roderick Campbell.

Invitations have been issued for the annual Shipping Ball, which will be he.d in St. Francis Hall oil July 3. As is usual, a strong and energetic committee has all the arrangements in hand and an excellent evening's ciitertainm<nt is'promised. The committee comprises: Misses T r . Atkins. N. Morgan. L. Ryrie, E. Wynne, Messrs. J, M. Frost, V. Hutchinson and R. C. Spring, Messrs. G. W. Knight and G. G. Fraser ire the joinDseeretaries. Invitations have been iksued for the annual dance.of the Wellington East Girls’ College Old Girls’ Association, to be held at the Realm, Hataitai, on July 1. An energetic committee is working to make this function the success that it lias been in past years.

Among the many bargains at Agnes Samson’s sale is an electric-blue velvet evening gown. It has a slightly-trained circular skirt, a gracefully draped cross-over bodice finished round the neck with a beautiful trimming of steel beads and rhinestones—only £4/4/-. Among the suits is a very smart brown and white speckled tweed with a plain skirt and a three-quarter eoat with a small, neat collar of brown ponvskin and deep tweed cuffs with big buttons; it is a lovely quality, and only £5/5/-. A black frock of a rough-surfaced tweed has lovely lines for a large figure—fitting XOS—with a long vest of beige georgette. To match this is a most becoming three-quarter coat sun-ray tucked into a standing collar with flat scarf ends. There are woolly frocks from 21/-! Smart scarves from 1/6! And lovely felts from 2/6! And quality always dependable. Agnes Samson, Lambton Quay.—Advt.