THE COMING COURTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 13

THE COMING COURTS

NEW ZEALANDERS TO

ATTEND

(From "The, Post's" Representative.)

•., LONDON, 17th March. At the first court of the season, the exact date of which has not yet, been announced from Buckingham Palace, presentations, to the King and Queen of the following New Zealanders will bo made by Lady "Wilford:—

Mrs. Eoderick Anderson, Mrs. Grenfell Morgan, Mrs. Lennox Douglas (Lady Wilford's niece), Mrs. Francis Clark (Waipawa), Miss Inda Beyers (Waipukurau), Miss Anne Clarkson (Auckland), Miss Biddy Philcox (Auckland), Miss Margaret Porritt (Timaru), Miss Joyce Beatrice Tolhurst, Miss Eila Guy (Hamilton, who will by then be Mrs. Denis Baleombe Brown). .

Lady Wilford will also present, unofficially, Mrs. McKillop (nee Huia Sargood, of Dunedin).

There usually are two courts in May and two in June.

The wish has been expressed by Their Majesties that this year's courts will be "dressed" by British designers and manufacturers. "With all notifications issued to those who have been named in the court lists submitted for Eoyal approval a printed slip is enclosed, which reads:

The Lord Chamberlain has the honour to intimate that Their Majesties have expressed the wish that ladies attending court should, as far as possible, wear dresses of British

manufacture.

This notice also accompanies the intimations sent to those whose names have been placed on the supplementary list.. Their Majesties' patriotic example is likely to exercise a profound influence on the economic future •, of British dress designers and manufactures, and wearers of British-designed-a;nd-made court gowns from fabrics of British manufacture may feel happy in the knowledge that the Old Country can do these things just as well as Paris or Vienna. The Queen never has any but all-British gowns. Our designs, fabrie-qtfality, cutting and work, and our dyes are as good as any that are to be procured elsewhere.

In an interview with a representative of the "Daily Telegraph," the Earl of Cromer, the Lord , Chamberlain, said that" although Their Majesties' request was not intended as a command, this was the first time for at least a century that any such suggestion has been' made in connection with a court function.