FAREWELL DANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 22

FAREWELL DANCE

CAPTAIN AND MRS. R- D.

OLIVER ENTERTAINED

1 Captain R. D. Oliver, R.N. CSecond Naval Member) and Mrs. Oliver, who will be leaving New Zealand next week for England via Australia, the East, and South Africa, have, for the past month, been attending innumerable farewell parties given in their honour. Last night the Harbour Lights Guild, of which Mrs. Oliver has been a very active member of the committee during her sojourn in New Zealand, gave a dance in the Mission to Seamen Hall. Flowers and greenery from the gardens of the members of the committee were arranged on the sills of all the windows surrounding the hall and the stage was massed with lovely rhododendrons and camellias. A canopy of streamers completed the gay effect. The guests, who were all personal friends of Captain and Mrs. Oliver, were received by the president of the guild, Mrs. G. P. H. Davidson. She was dressed in a graceful gown of

black georgette with a long spray of white gardenias and lily of the valley across the square neckline, and with this was worn a coatee of fine black lace and fox furs. Mrs. Oliver was , wearing a silver fox fur cape with her frock of black satin, which was patterned with large green and pink flowers. Those who organised the dance were Mesdames Davidson, Graham Robertson, Harley Brown, David " Aikem* Graeme Watspn, W, H. Price, A. Mack, C. Morton^ Walter^ Blundell; anil '.£. Williams, and among those present were Commodore H. E. Horan, Mrs! Horan, and Miss Sheila Horan, the Right Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland and Mrs. Holland, M. and Madame Armand Nihotte, M. and Madame Pouqueti Mr. and Mrs. Lowell C. Pinkerton, M. and Madame d'Acunzo, Captain E. Grave Morris and Miss Pixie Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Vickerman, the Rev. B. J. Williams and Mrs. Williams, Dr. Graham Robertson and Mrs. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Gregory, Mrs. Frank Leckie and Mr. Leckie, the Rev. and Mrs. McLeary, Miss Whitcombe, Miss Morton, Mr. Harley Brown the Rev. and Mrs. L. N. Watkins, Captain and Mrs. V. G. Webb, Mrs. E. T. Spidy and Miss Irene Spidy, Mrs. James Bennie and Miss Marjorie Bennie, Mrs. C. Moore, Miss Jones, Miss Eva Butts, Mr. Rennie, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Gillies, Misses Joan and Valmai Maudsley, Miss Withers, Miss Edith Harley, Miss Mary Neave, Miss Marjorie Hutton, and Messrs. R. Darroch, Charles Todd, George Davidson, B. Gibbons, J. Johnson Stanley Vihsen, Duff Daysh, Geoffrey Colledge, and G. Tolhurst.