LADY GALWAY ENTERTAINED

Evening Star, Issue 23726, 6 November 1940, Page 10

LADY GALWAY ENTERTAINED

Luncheon Party. In honour of Her Excellency Lady Galway, a luncheon party was given at the Otago Women’s Club on Monday by the club president, Lady Ferguson. A central bowl of rose-coloured ranunculus graced the table, on each lace mat of which lay a spray of sweetscented roses. Roses, set in delicate fern, were also arranged on a side table, and tho whole effect was most pleasing. Her Excellency was attired in a frock of blue and white flowered silk, a navy sheer coat, and a picture hat of navy straw. Lady Ferguson wore over her blue French crepe gown a capo of gentian blue marabout, while her hat was of black baku straw. The guests included the mayoress (Mrs A. H. Allen) and members of the club committee. Those present were;—Lady Hutchison, Mesdames Gerald Fitzgerald, Wakefield Holmes, J, Blues, J. F. Drake, V. E. Galway, Richard Hudson, J.. S. Ross, F. G. Sopor, R. Gilkison, A. A. Fairbairn, and Misses B. Farquhar and J. Xicolsou. Morning Tea in the Reception Rooms of Town Hall. Yesterday morning the mayoress (Mrs A. H. Allen) invited Lady Galway to the reception rooms at the Town Hall to meet the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild and the convenors of the different suburban depots. Morning tea was served, the table being prettily decorated with rosebuds. Her Excellency wore a blue suit with -a posy of lily-of-tho-valley pinned in the lapel, and a blue tailored straw hat. Mrs Allen’s frock of Air Force blue angora was worn under a black coat with an upturned black sailor hat. In introducing the guest of honour, Mrs Allen told of the 573 cases of clothing and 1,000 pairs of footwear which the guild has already forwarded to headquarters, Wellington. Bv the end of the month she said the number of cases would reach GOO! On behalf of guild members she extended best wishes for a pleasant and safe voyage to England. Her Excellency was then presented with a bouquet of roses. Lady Galway, in thanking the mayoress and guild mmebers for what they had already clone, spoke of the urgent need for still greater effort. As the war goes on, she sTaid, more and more British families will be homeless and need assistance, and when later the lands now overran by the Germans will have to be rehabilitated, tho need will be greater still. Lady Galway was glad to know that worn garments had been used to such an extent. Headquarters urged this all the time, she said, as it was not expedient that new stocks should fie depleted to send to Britain. Mrs J. R. Fairbairn, for the conveners, -and MrsW. B. T averner, for guild members, thanljed Lady Galway for her helpful words. The former spoke especially of the help given by local firms of cleaners and by the Dunedin laundries in treating many of the articles sent in. Later Lady Galway and those present visited the basement of the Town Hall, where the guild has its headquarters, where many cases are, ready to send, and where hundreds of cosy garments are awaiting the packers.