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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 18

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Sports Champion's Coming-of-Age. For her coming-of-age on Independence Day, Miss Jean Lark, a notable athletic champion and tennis and hockey representative, was given a 6 o'clock tea party by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Lark, at their home in Brooklyn. Among the invited guests were many of their daughter's old and new friends from college and different sports circles. A novel item during the tea was the breaking of goldpainted "wish bones'- received by each guest, and daintily tied With "pale pink and blue ribbon, matching the tohings of the double-tier cake. After tea the guest of honour and all her friends went to a picture theatre. Among those present were Misses J. and B. Baker, D. Orsborn, J. Sharp, D. Hurley, M. Murphy, M. Brennan (Blenheim), O. Jones, A. Lawson, and I. Williamson. Brooklyn Plunket Society. The committee of the Brooklyn Plun-1 ket Society held a successful "500" card evening at the Returned Soldiers' Hall, Brooklyn, recently. There was a large; attendance of players, and .a most en joy able evening was spent. Supper was served; by membl rs of the committee. The annual dance will be held at the end of this month, and the committee intends to make the dance an outstanding feature of the year's activities. Guests at Ancestral Home. Mr. Ronald H. Walker, headmaster of Te Kao School, Auckland, and Mrs. Walker have lately returned from a tour of England and Scotland, during which some of the famous schools were visited, states "The Post's" London correspondent. In Scotland Mr. and Mrs. Walker were for a time at Corb Castle, a magnificent ancestral home in the Highlands. They also stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Bentley at Troon. Mr. Bentley, it will be remembered, is a New Zealander who was for some time Comptroller of Supplies at Buckingham Palace till he became manager of the Marine Hotel, Troon. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are now touring .the South of England and Wales in their car. Difficult Times Faced. The committee of the Alexandra Home met recently, Mrs. H. Bayldon Ewen being in the chair. These ladies have been facing rather difficult times lately, mainly owing to changing conditions and the rising costs of every* thing. There is, however, a splendid spirit of loyalty and co-operation among them," and they are doing all they can in the rather special interests of the home. Donations of fruit and flowers for the girls; or little woollies and old linen are always most acceptable, and are very gratefully received and acknowledged. Donations have been received from the following good friends of the home: Congregational Church Women's Guild, Mrs. Hollins, Miss Hand; and other friendSj Mr. Knight, Messrs Bond and.COi, Mrs. J. T. Martin, Mrs. Alex, Smith, and two anonymous friends.