"SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS"

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 17

"SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS"

PIONEER CLUB WELCOME

The ladies who are with the delegates to the Empire Conference in Wellington will surely think chat this district and city are most nrolific with flowers, for every one of the many functions they have attended have been noted for the lovely flowers displayed. The morning tea party given by the Pioneer Club today was no exception. The "piece de resistance" was. a delightful bowl of New Zealand blossoms, ferns, and foliage from the garden of Mrs. High ton, at Eastbourne. There were displayed rangiora, kowhai, Chatham Island lily, wineberry, and other flowers, all of: which were much admired by the; visitors. The lounge and drawing-room were bright with English flowers, a central bowl arranged by Mrs. dv Pont having lilac,' ixias, and long fern fronds, while around were branched almond blossom, vivid ixias, and, sparaxis, rhododendrons, Iceland poppies, blue and white irises, white broom, and brown birch, so that flowers and foliage were all most tastefully intermingled. Misses Cooper and Jacobsen provided most of these much-admired flowers.

Miss Kane (president), who was wearing a spring frock of navy blue ninon spotted with white, and a navy straw hat with flat gold daisies in the front, made a brief speech of welcome to the visitors, mentioning particularly Lady Linton, a New Zealander, who had been away from here for. 28 .years,, leaving just before the inception of the Pioneer Club. She wished all a further pleasant tour and hoped that they would come to the Dominion again.

Among the overseas visitors who signed the club book were Lady Burton, Mesdames Woodhead (Huddersfield), D. M. Cook (Dudley), Hedlev Miller (Purley), ■Sugden (Yorkshire), W. M. Birks (Montreal), E.R. Cuff (Launceston), D. Hhodes-Barclay (London), L. Taylor,(Tunbridge Wells), M. A. Cook (Reading), E. E. Leatherby (Plymouth), J. A. Baird (Hastings). The New Zealand ladies included Mesdames Machin (Christchurch), R. P. Smith (Christchurch), M. Rolls and L. Horn (Napier), V. Silk (Wanganui), N. Hamilton (Sumner), L. H. Baird (Hastings, New Zealand).

Morning tea and a great deal of conversation .made the time pass ' most pleasantly, and the large attendance of club members showed the interest taken in the opportunity of meeting the visitors from so many parts of the Empire.