VICE-REGAL DANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19691, 18 July 1927, Page 5

VICE-REGAL DANCE.

Although the night was particularly cold, Government House, Wellington, was a very bright and pleasant place on Thursday evening, when a dance was. given by Their Excellencies the Governoreneral and Lady Alice Fergusson, the guests being mostly young people, visitors to Wellington, and quite a number of debutantes from the city. There were blazing fires in all the rooms and the decorations were of beautiful flowers from the conservatories. In the ballroom were groups of ferns, palms and other large plants, with stands of vividly-coloured cyclamen. In the drawing rooms the same plan was followed, with the addition of huge bowls of wattle, bright and sweet-scenteci, redolent of spring. The loggia was furnished and decorated for sitting out, also the long corridors. Supper was set in the dining room entrance hall and along the corridor beyond the dining room. The tables were decorated with rose and white camellias in the dining room, the central one handsomely adorned with gold candelabra and centrepiece. The others were arranged with silver bowls of wattle. Heir Excellency was in a gown of oxydised silver lace, with nasturtium-coloured embroideries, and a handsome green-fringed wrap, her ornaments being diamonds and pearls. The house party included Lady Fergusson, in gold tissue and brown lace over brown silk and a blue rose, and .her daughters in pale blue and white respectively, with silver beading; Miss Boyle, wearing grey, silver embroidered, and a pink wrap; General Sir Andrew and Lady Russell, the latter wearing black lace \vith a red rose on the corsage; Air. and Mrs. Teschemaker, the latter in pink, with gold lace over green, and Miss Teschemaker, in palest, manve, beaded to tone.