NEW ZEALAND WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN

A LONDON RECEPTION

(From The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 17th February. Tho-members of. the New Zealand Women's Association were the guests of Viscountess Elibank and the United Circle of the Lyceum Club at a reception on the. afternoon of 12th February. It was a very happy function which brought together a large number of the members, including Lady Wilford (president), Lady Salmond (hon. secretary), Miss V. Russell (hon. treasurer), and ladies of the committee. Vocal items were provided by Miss Hodder, Mr. Parsons, and Mr. Barrington. The first-named two have just completed their Academy course, and are both singers of promise. Lady Elibank extended a very cordial invitation to her Now Zealand guests, to whom also she offered her deep sympathy in the terrible disaster that the Dominion had sustained. Mrs. Hal Williams returned thanks on behalf of the guests for the hospitality received, and for the sympathy which Lady Elibank had expressed in connection with the earthquake. Among- those present were: Lady Holdsworth, Mrs. A. M.-Miehie, Mrs. Graham Michie, Mrs. . M'N. Christie, Mrs. Bernard Myers, Mrs. B. Mill, Mrs. G. Beetham, Mrs. J. Gell, MVs. N. FitzHcrbert, Mrs. Brunifit, Mrs. E. Hitchcock, Mrs. H. T. B. Drew, Mrs. Lindo Levien,. -Mrs. Frederick Moore, Miss Rosemary Bees, Mrs. West, Mrs. and Miss Corliss, Miss E. Phurazyn, Miss N. Scanlan, Mrs. B. C. Bennie, Mrs. A. Loftus Tottenham, Miss E. Bayley, Mrs. M.. Holmes, the. Misses Holmes. Lady Elibank is the sister of Briga-dier-General W. B. N. Madooks, C.8., C.M.G., D.5.0., once a Staff Officer in New Zealand He married: Miss Bullcr, the daughter of tho lato Sir Walter and Lady Buller, once very well-known residents of Wellington.