AFTERNOON RECEPTION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 13

AFTERNOON RECEPTION

There was a great gathering of Wellington people and visitors yesterday afternoon at tlio Adelpbi Cabaret, when Mrs. J.. G. Coates. and Miss Downic Stowart gave a very pleasant entertainment in the form of an afternoon tea. The large ballroom at the cabaret was charmingly arranged with palms and flowers, the long tables down. the room being set with bowls of beautiful daffodils and jonquils from Lady Rhodes's garden in Christchureh, and thero were also artistic arrangements of branches of prunis, flowering currant, and crab-applo blossom from Lady Eoborts's garden at Lower Hutt. In all the decorations were very charming. Mrs. Coates, wearing bright red marietta .ploated frock, a hat of the samo tone, and a fox fur, and Miss Downie Stewart, in a black satin ensemble, with gold embroidery on tho coat, and a black, hat with coloured motifs across the front, received the guests. A charming surprise to Mrs. Coates was the presentation from the Women's Auxiliary of the Reform Leaguo of a dainty basket of pansies and fern, as a memento of tho anniversary of her birthday, which was yesterday. Among tho many guests wero Mrs. Baird, Lady Rhodes, Lady and Miss Carncross, Lady Luke, Lady Stathnm, Mrs. B. B. Wood, Lady Roberts, Lady Buckloton, Mrs. M. Myors, Miss Skurrett, Mrs. aaid Miss Troup, Mrs. T. K. Sidey, Mrs. Veitch, Mrs. C. W. Salmon, Mrs. Nash (Palmerston North), Mrs. Jones (Canterbury), Mrs. Ansell (Port Chalmors), Mrs. G. D. Smith (Canterbury), Mrs. and Miss Lysnar, Mrs. L. P. Blundoll, Mrs. H. D' Crawford, Mrs. Earnshaw,' Mrs. Dyer, Mis. Hay, Mrs. E. R. James, Mrs. G. W. Robinson, Mrs. W. H. Field, Mrs. Sprott, Mrs. Coleridge, Mrs. W. J. Blundoll, Mrs. Mitford, Mrs. A. M. Johnson, Mrs. T. Ward and Miss Ward, Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Mrs. W. Kennedy, Mrs. Butts, Mrs. and Miss Norwood, Mrs. and Miss Hadfleld, Mrs. and Miss Miles, Mrs. R. W. Kane, Mrs. Earlo-Kelly, Mrs. Gear, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. F. Ward, Mrs. P. Nathan, Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Penselor, Mrs. H. D. Muir, Mrs. G. Craig, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Smyth, Mrs. J. J. Clark, Mrs. Ewen, Mrs. Kidson Mrs. and . Miss Corliss, Mrs. A. Crawford, Mrs. Lan Duncan, Mrs. Stafford, Mrs. J. O'Shea, Mrs. K. S. Williams, Mrs. Wylio, Mrs. W. Pearce, Mrs. Norman, Mrs. W. R. Davidson, !Miss Hall-Jones, Miss Medley, Misses Halse, Miss Hyncs, Mrs. W. H, Millward, Madame Merlin, Mrs. Hicksbn, Mrs. G. George, Mrs. A. D. Kerr, .Mrs. J. C. Andersen, Mis. P. C. Watt, Mrs. Shorrt, Mrs. Coad, Mrs. Bcales, Mrs. M. Macdonald, Mrs. A. Gray and Miss Grayj Mrs. Porteous, Mrs. B. E. Murphy, Miss Barnott, Mrs. R. E. Hayes, Mrs. J. S. Elliott, Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie, Mrs. J. Harding, Mrs. Macdonald (Edendale), Mrs. Raymond, Mrs. R. A. Wright, Mrs. H. Hall, Mrs. C. E. Richardson, Mrs. Moore, Miss Robin, Miss I. leaser, Mrs. Malcolm Ross, Mrs. Tostornson, Mrs. Ilott, Mrs. H. Norman, Mrs. Tripp, Mrs. Qk. O'Connor, Mrs. Pov,\ Mrs. \ind Miss Bemiie, Mrs. Shirtcliffe-,. Mrs. Larnach, Mrs. Maealister, Mrs. W. Young, Mrs. M'Kibbin, Miss Simpson, Mrs. Oakley, Mrs. J. Aston, Mrs. W. M. Pago, Miss .M. M'Lcan, Mrs. E. Bucholz, Mrs. Burdekin, Mrs. J. A. Carpenter, Miss Hester M'Loan, Miss M. MacGregor, Dr. Platts-Mills, Mrs. L. A. Paish, Mrs. S. Myers, Mrs. Doctor, Mrs. Adamson, Mrs. E. W. Kane, Mrs. Frazer, Mrs. J. Hislop,. Mrs. P* Myers, Mrs. Landie, Mrs. and Miss Joseph, Mrs. C. White, Mrs. Koily, Mrs. S. Natusch, Miss Richmond, Mrs. F. Bethune, Mrs. Yaldwyn. Miss Baber, Mrs. Haire, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Leicester, Mrs. and Miss Bristow, Mrs. and Miss Clayton, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. Schofield, Mrs. J. Darling; Mrs. S. Wheeler, Mrs. F. M'Lean, Mrs. T. Hislop, Miss Craig, Miss Herbert, and many others.

Miss E. Quirke, assistant to the superintending overseer of the Government Printing Office, was the recipient yesterday of a number of presentations from the staff on leaving tho Department owing to hor approaching marriage.

Broadcast programmes are now being provided during the Milan-Paris section of the journey from Constantinople to Paris by the Simplon Orient express. The wireless service is mainly utilised for the entertainment of tlie passengers in the dining cars s ' " L