AMONG THE VISITORS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 14

AMONG THE VISITORS.

It was difficult in such a large and ever-moving population to distinguish people and in trying to do so it was possible to feel like Alice in Wonderland, who kept seeing the* Cheshire Cat appearing and disappearing, for as soon as some face apparently known was seen, and an effort made to get nearer to be sure, it had disappeared in the crowd, only unlike the famous Cat, it did not obligingly appear again in the same place. However, among those met in stand or lawn were Lady Wilford and her two sisters, the Misses Mac Lean, Mrs. R. D. Oliver, Mrs. MacRae and Miss Betty Macßae (Palmerston North), Mrs. J. C. Crawford and her siste», Miss Perry (Here-

taunga), Mrs. Peter Hall (Hawarden), Mrs. and Miss Hussey and Miss Paul (W&nganui), Miss Brenda Bennett (England), Mrs. T. R. Lawson, Miss Barbara Blundell, Mrs. M. ReidjvMrs. Edney, Mrs. David Peacock and her daughter, .Mrs. and the Misses Parker, Mrs. C. M. Turrell, Mrs. Turnbull.'Mrs. W. Turnbull, Mrs. M. Paterson, Mrs. Elgar, Mrs. Pritchett, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. W. E. A. Gill, Mrs. Arthur Duncan, Miss M. Whyte, Mrs. D. Allan and her two daughters, Mrs. W. Ward, Mrs. F. Hodson, Mrs. W. H. Price, Mrs. Handyside, Mrs. Steele, Mrs. T. M. Wilkes, Mrs. C. W. Earle, Mrs. J. S. Head, Mrs. W. Perry, Mrs. Humphrey O'Leary, Mrs. James Payne, Lady Roberts, Miss Farquhar (Dunedin), Mrs. C. E. Richardson, Mrs. and Miss Wheeler, Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp, Mrs. and Miss Whatley, Miss Elsmie Ward, Mrs. Chalmers, Mrs. Andrew Todd, Mrs. Booth (Carterton), Mrs. W. Watson, Mrs. Warwick Blundell, Mrs.* W. E. Leicester, Mrs. Hubert Nathan and her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Peacock, Mrs. B. B. Wood, Mrs. R. E. Tripe, Mrs. Whyte, ! Miss H. O'Leary Fay, Mrs. Robertshaw, Mrs. Waddell, Miss Scully, Mrs. F. Leckie, Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. R. Levin, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. P. McEvedy, Mrs. G. Williams, Mrs. Harcourt, Mrs. Charles White, Miss White, Miss B. Reading, Miss Lorna Bray, Mrs. Eric Parker, Miss J. Luckie, Mrs. Eric Nathan, Miss Eileen Macarthy, Miss Margaret Collins, Mrs. G. P. H. Davidson, Mrs. Sinclair Thompson, Mrs. Murray Litchfield, Mrs. G. Reid, Miss Helen Ward, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. R. Beetham, Mrs. Percy Thomson, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. W. Hume (Wairarapa), Mrs. Gibbons, jMrs. Eric Todd (Waipukurau), Mrs. John Duncan, Mrs. and Miss Kettle, Mrs. Hobson (Waipukurau), Mrs. and Miss Trimnell, Miss Jan Sloman, Miss Erna Porter, Mrs. Aiken, Mrs. Tottenham, Miss G. Handyside, Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Kronfelt, Miss Lorna Watsori, Mrs. Saunders, Miss Noel Booth (Masterton), Mrs. Deans (Masterton), Miss Dawn Higgins (Otaki), Mrs. Norman Gibbons, Mrs. Leslie,/ Mrs. Ralph Lowry, Mrs. Peat (Wanganui), Mrs. Lusk, Mrs. Mrs. Pow, Mrs. Mackintosh/Mrs. W. Flanagan, Miss Murison, Mrs. E. E. Gillon, Mrs. W. Luke and her daughter, Mrs. H. Ainslie, Mrs. J. W. Murphy, Mrs. Martin Tweed, Mrs. Graham Robertson and Miss V. Robertson, Mrs. A. Hunt and Miss Hunt, Mrs. Desmond Todd, Mrs. C. W. Nielsen, Mrs. V. H. Waters, the Misses Whelan, Mrs. C. W. Mack, Mrs. W. Burton, Miss M. yon Dadelzen, Mrs. and Miss Kelly, Mrs. H. Stringer, Mrs. Rodie, Mrs. Victor Lloyd, Mrs. F. B. Dwyer, Mrs. H. J. Jowett, Mrs. and Miss Maudsley, Miss F. Russell, the Misses Flanagan, Mrs. and Miss Spears, Miss N. Bayfeild, Mrs. F. Vickerman, Miss Gusscott, Mrs. A. Hislop (Hastings), Mrs. Derek Gould (Christchurch), Miss M. Curlett (Hastings), Mrs. B. Hammond, Mrs. Lan Macßae, Mrs. M. Dwyer (Hastings), Mrs. W. G. Talbot, Mrs. W. Blaxall, Mrs. W. Lane (Hastings), Mrs. Harold Barker, Mrs. H. Hayman, Mrs. C. Harbottle, Mrs. N. Byrne, Mrs. C. A. Jerfrey, Miss G. Redmond, Miss Loughnan, Mrs. W. Spence (Auckland), Mrs. N. James (Masterton), Miss E. Caro, Mrs. Hayman, Mrs. T. Morison (Hawke's Bay), Mrs. A. Schloss, Miss Nancy Springhall, Mrs. A. H. Sinel, Miss H. Collins, Mrs. E. Barber, Miss P. Bourke, Mrs.. Sommerville, Mrs. Brian Todd, Miss Timmins, Misses M. and C. Dwyer, Misses L. and, J. Hall, Mrs. J. Darling, Mrs. Batten, Mrs. and Miss Buck, Mrs. Gifford Moore, Mrs. and Miss C. W. Mack, Mrs. N. Towns (Masterton), Mrs. and Miss Clive, Brown, Miss Esme Harding (Masterton), Miss Dorothy Steward, Miss Myra Lawson, Miss B. Downing, Miss Moira Robinson.

Though there was such a large crowd to deal with the Commissionaires and Trentham officials managed so well that everything went without a hitch, which was a notable achievement.

When Madame Chanel wears a bolero there is a reason for it. She thinks they are still smart enough to feature in her evening collection. The one she chose for herself was in satin brocaded to look like lace^ and was dead, mat white, with a very full skirt like a gipsy's.