COCKTAIL PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 14

COCKTAIL PARTY

BUFFET DINNER FOLLOWS

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Gibbons entertained about 150 friends at a cocktail party which they gave at their home, Boxhill, Khandallah, on Saturday evening between five and seven o'clock. Masses of cherry blossom, bulbs, japonica, and primroses decorated the large reception rooms, and the Misses Patricia and Marjorie Gibbons helped their parents to look after the guests, many of whom stayed on to a buffet dinner.

The hostess was wearing a gown of blue floral chiffon. Miss Patricia Gibbons wore black lacquered satin and her sister was in flowered georgette. Among the guests invited were Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Winton Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Caughley, Mr. ani Mrs. L. C. Blundell, Mr. and Mrs. K. Morpeth, Mr. Horace Scott (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Dinnie, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin,. Mr. and Mrs. W. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Crammond, Mr. and Mrs. S. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins, Dr. and Mrs. Graham Robertson,

Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Doctor, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Allison, Sir Charles and Lady Norwood, Mr. and Mrs. L. George, Mr. and Mrs. W. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kirkcaldie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Didsbury, Mr. and Mrs. V. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. H. Toogood, Mr. and Mrs. D. McCaul, Mr. and Mrs. Pyne, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith," Dr. and Mrs. E. Litchfield, Mr. and Mrs. Hoby, Mr. and Mrs. E. Picot, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Norman, Mr. and Mrs. Desborough, Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Munro, Mr. and Mrs. Pottinger, Dr. and Mrs. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Robertshawe, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell C. Pinkerton, Mr. and Mrs. Luxford, Mr. and Mrs. John Jerram, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Critchley, Mr. and Mrs. Armour, Mr. and Mrs. W. Craig (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. Brinkman, Mrs. G. P. H. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Blair, Mr. and Mrs. G. McMorran, Mr. and Mrs. John Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Glennie, Mr. and Mrs. J. Graig (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. Steele, Mrs. Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Sadd, Mr. and Mrs. W. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. Preshaw, Mr. and Mrs. Sladden, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. Duff, Mr. and Mrs. Widdop, Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone, Mr. and Mrs. McNab, Mrs. W. H. Gledhill, Mr. and Mrs. A. Seed, the Misses Batham, Mr. and Mrs. Cavaghan, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gibbons, and Mrs. Hollis.