COCKTAIL PARTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 18

COCKTAIL PARTIES

RACE WEEK. ENTERTAINING

There is, as usual in race-week, quite a spate of private entertaining. Am'ang those who have , given "five o'clock" parties already this week are the Hon. E. R. Davis and Mrs. Davis (Auckland visitors to, Wellington) and Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Gilmour. The party given by the Hon. E. R. Davis and Mrs. Davis took place after the races on Tuesday in a private sit-ting-room at the Hotel Waterloo. A handsome swagger coat of grey Persian lamb was worn by the hostess with her black tailored frock and small black hat. All the flowers decorating the | room —early roses, berries and ranunculi j—were in shades of red and looked very attractive against the natural wood furnishings and oyster-coloured i walls. The guests included Lady Buckleton and Miss-Buckleton, M. and I Madame Andre Pouquet, Dr. and Mrs. McGregor Grant (Auckland), Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Dr. and Signora B. d'Acunzo, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Coyle, Miss Gorrie (Auckland), Mi». and Mrs. C. Bothamley, Miss Doris Bray, and Miss Lorna Bray, Captain Barnett, Mr, and Mrs. Kuchi Gunji, Mr. and Mrs. P. Miles, Captain Bates, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Nathan, Miss Joyce Nathan, and Mr. Sellars. Mr. and. Mrs. Gilmour's party, which took place last evening at their flat, 243 The Terrace,: was given for their guest, Miss Shirley Ormond, of Gisborne, and for race-week., visitors from Southland, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Speight and Mr. and Mrs. Angus McDonald. "Mixed bowls" of poppies and jonquils were arranged about the fiat. A frock of Argentine red was worn by Mrs. Gilmour, and Miss Ormond was wearing a black frock with brilliant clips. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Clarry, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, J. H. Gilmer, the Hon. Vincent Ward and Mrs. Ward, Mrs. B. B. Wood, Lieut.-Commander T. Ellis and Mrs.. Ellis," Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Howden, Mr. arid Mrs. Grenfell Morgan, Dr. and Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Todd^ Miss Brenda Edmonds, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Todd, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Whyte, Mr. and Mrs. John Macdonald, Dr. and Mrs. John Twhigg, Mr. and Mrs^Ken Mason, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rainey, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marchbanks, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lascelles (Dunediri), Miss Barbara Kemp and Mr. Brian Kemp (Gisborne), Dr. and Mrs. John Plimmer, Dr. Welton Hogg, Mr. Frank Grear, and Messrs. B. Leckie, J. Wilson, F. Dawson, and G. Colledge.