RACEGOERS WELL PREPARED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 14

RACEGOERS WELL PREPARED

It says a lot for present-day fashions when on such a day as Saturday people -were sensibly and yet attractively dressed. Although conditions out at Trentham racecourse were thoroughly unpleasant, the crowds were a gay and exhilarating sight. There was every imaginable colour to be seen, not only in the lovely flower beds and countryside which were made even more vivid by the rain, but also in the dressing of the women racegoers, the majority of whom were prepared for the worst in the matter of weather. It was as well that the morning gave warning of approaching storms, because by 4 o'clock in the afternoon the intermittent showers changed into a driving downpour.

!■■ There were one or two optimists present in frocks with short sleeves, but they must have spent an uncomfortable day, even if it had not rained, the wind which swept down the Hutt Valley having in it a sharp reminder jthat it came straight from the Rimutakas, which are still wearing a slight mantle of snow. INVIGORATING CHARM. The most attractively dressed racegoers were undoubtedly those who were most sensibly attired. There is a wholesome, invigorating charm about tweeds, stout, flat-heeled shoes, pull-

WIND AND RAIN FRUSTRATED

The members of the viceregal party were the guests at luncheon of Mr. Eric Riddiford. A smart ensemble, consisting of a frock and three-quar-ter-length coat of mermaid blue lightweight tweed was worn by Mrs. Riddiford, and her veiled shovel-brimmed felt hat and accessories were brown.

Also seated at the official table were Major-General Sir William SinclairBurgess, Group Captain the Hon. R. and Mrs. Cochrane, Commodore and Mrs. H. E. Horan and Miss Horan, Mr. A. S. Elworthy (Canterbury), Mrs. and Miss Geo. Gouid (Christchurch), Mr. A. T. Donnelly (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fulton (Rangiora), Mr. J. S. McLeod and Miss McLeod (Hastings), Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry (Hawke's Bay), Mr. G. B. Beatson (Hastings), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gaisford (Dannevirke), Mr. and Mrs. Thos. A. Duncan (Hunterville), Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Currie (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. J. Bull (Hunterville), Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Donald (Featherston), Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Booth and Miss Howard Booth (Carterton), Mr. and Mrs. J. M. James, Mr. D. Kelly, Mrs. Richmond (Hastings), Mr. and Mrs. R. Stead (Hastings).

At the Ministerial table seats were reserved for the Hon. D. G. Sullivan and Mrs. Sullivan, the Hon. H. T.