HAPPY ENDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 18

HAPPY ENDING

ACADEMY PRIVATE VIEW

THEIR EXCELLENCIES

PRESENT

There was an air of gaiety among the large audience which attended the opening of the exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in the National Gallery last night. This was a special occasion as it was the fiftieth jubilee of the society.

The gallery looked particularly bright, the pictures being displayed and forming an excellent background for the many beautiful gowns worn. Large bowls of red rhododendrons were effective on the long table in the gallery from which the speeches were made. Their Excellencies, who were received by the president, Mr. G. G. Gibbes Watson and Mrs. Watson, were accompanied by Lieut. R. S. le H. Lom-bard-Hobson and Mrs. Byron.

Others in the official party were Mr. W. Fergusson Hogg and Mrs. Hogg, Mr.'W. Ernest Hunt and Mrs.. Hunt, Mrs. Murray Fuller, Mr. W. S. and Mrs. Wauchop, Mr. A. D. Carbery, Mr. Roland Hipkins and Mrs. Hipkins, Mr. Marcus King and Mrs. King, Dr. Robert Stout, Mr. T. D. H. Hall and Mrs. Hall, Mr. Harry Atkinson and Mrs. Atkinson, and Mr. E. D. Gore.

Her Excellency wore a gown of rosecoloured georgette with a smart shoulder cape of soft fur, and Mrs. Byron a black gown with coat of summer ermine.

Mrs. G. G. Gibbes Watson was in shot blue taffeta; Mrs. W. Fergusson Hogg cornflower blue taffeta; Mrs. Ernest Hunt, black beaded georgette; Mrs. Murray Fuller, trained gown of brocaded black satin; Mrs. W. S. Wauchop, heavy black marocain -with sequins; Mrs. T. D. H. Hall, black lace with red and white cluster of flowers; Mrs. Roland Hipkins, black marocain; Mrs. Marcus King, wine-coloured velvet; and Mrs. Harry Atkinson, floral ninbn. -

Others present included Lady Myers, Mr. D. A. Ewen, Mr. L. Lefeaux, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Y. Seddon, Group-Captain the Hon. R. A. Cochrane and Mrs. Cochrane, Mr. and. Mjrs. Gunji, Mr. and Mrs. Feng Wang, Dr. d'Acunzo and Signora d'Acunzo, Mr. R. Boulter, Mr. C. M. Turrell, Mrs. J. W. Heenan, Mr. and Mrs. Schmid, Mr. C. E. Crichtley. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blundell, the Hon. Vincent Ward and Mrs. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Brandon, Mrs. C. Todd, Mr. W. G. Baird, Mrs. Corkill, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bass, Mrs. John Spence (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Dwyer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Vossler, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jacobs, Miss Sarah Cowles, Mrs. Fotheringham, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lawson, Colonel and Mrs. W. H. Cunningham, Miss Florence Dix, Miss M. I. Dix, Dr. J. A. Doctor, Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Macdonald, Miss Geddes, Mrs. M. E. R. Tripe, Miss C. L. Richardson, Dr. and Mrs. Murray Litchfield, Mr. and Mrs, V. P. Haughton, Mrs. D. R. Hoggard and Miss Hoggard, Mrs. H. D. Bennett, Mrs. Rodie, Dr. and Mrs. Isaacs, bMr. and Mrs. A. E. Burch, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Kemp, Captain and Mrs. V. G. Webb, Miss K. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Luke, Dr. and Mrs. John Mercer, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Malfroy, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Honour, Mr. ahd Mrs. T. A. McCormack, Miss England, ' Mr. and Mrs. L. Sinclair Thompson, Dr. and Mrs. John Twhigg, Miss Elsmie Ward, Miss Constance Morice, Miss Barbara Standish, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Young, Mrs.- C. E. Maudsley, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Higgs, Mrs. Boyes, Mr. Angus Gray, Mrs. E: D. Jackson, Miss-Joan Jackson, Miss Ruth Watson, Miss Joyce Watson, Miss Marion Kirkley, Miss Paddy Steele, Miss Fr'ancelle Kain, Miss Donne, Miss Burley, Miss Evelyn Johnstone, Miss Heather Horrax, Miss Amy Dawson (Auckland), Miss Ethel Gyles, Miss Eva Butts, Mr. Charles Todd, Mr. Ross Gore, Mrs. H. Hardcastle, Mrs. A. V. Shorter, Mrs. F. W. Seaton and Miss Mary Seaton, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. G. Coleridge, Mrs. Maurioe Hurst and Miss Mollie Hurst, Mrs. W. H. Price, Mr1; R. E. Tripe, Mrs. A. Lawson, Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, and Mr. Prescott Jensen.