AFTERNOON PARTY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 4

AFTERNOON PARTY

A hundred aud forty guests spent a delightful afternoon in the palm lounge of the Hotel St. George yesterday when Mrs. Noel Nelson and her daughter, Mrs. Rodney Thomson, entertained their friends at afternoon tea. The party served as a farewell to Mrs. Thomson, who will leave by the Rangitiki from Napier on Thursday to join her husband iu London, and her many Wellington friends were glad of tills very pleasant opportunity of saying I good-bye to her. The lounge had been most beautiful11 decorated for the occasion—and it: was a case of roses, roses everywhere - —fragrant blooms and curling buds in .shades of deepest red and pink, which were strikingly displayed against the cream walls, with the graceful palms for contrast. They stood in big howls on stands and tables, ami in tall vases of coloured crystal and gloaming witchhowls. Each little tea table, clothed in pale green linen, had a vase of red and white roses with maidenhair fern as its centrepiece. Rhododendrons and peonies, too, in varied pink tunings, were placed here and there, and gilded baskets hanging on the wall combined an artistic arrangement of roses or peonies with trails of deep green foliage. Cigarettes were at hand for the guests to enjoy at their whim, and neatly uniformed .attendants served tea and coffee and wheeled round trollies of delectable savouries and cakes. Mrs. Nelson was wearing a hostess gowu of eggshell blue lace, with a finger-tip jacket to match, and a widebrimmed picture hat in the same shade.

Sirs. George Kay received some of her French Club friends at her home at Northland on Saturday afternoon, A pleasant time was spent in conversing in French and with music, songs and recitations being given by members of the French Club. Some of the guests were Mesdames MeClune, Decbanet-Me-Intosb, Young, Green, Finlayson, Bendali, de Filllppi, Wahren. Kay; Misses Mead. Smytlison (2), Walshe, Messrs. McClune. G. Kay, William Kay, John Levin, <