AN INVESTITURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22259, 11 May 1934, Page 10

AN INVESTITURE

MISS J. MOWBRAY HONOURED (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, May 10. The investiture of Miss J. A. Mowbray, president of,the Auckland branch of the Victoria League with the insignia of an officer of the Order of the British Empire was performed by the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) at the league's Empire ball to-night. His Excellency said that Lady Bledisloe was far from well following a severe attack of influenza, and until half an hour beforehand it had been decided that she should not attempt to come. She had thought, however, that her absence might be a disappointment to some, and particularly to Miss Mowbray, and she had accordingly decided to attend for a short time. The occasion was only the second during his term of office on which an investitute had been performed outside Government House. His Excellency said it was not on account of any apparent disabilities of age on the part of the prospective recipient that he had decided to take the unusual course of presenting to Miss Mowbray the decoration which his Majesty had been pleased to award her. Mentally and physically Miss Mowbray was as active as ever, but he had thought it fitting that she should receive tier decoration in the presence of her many friends, both members of the league and those outside it, on this important_ and special occasion in the league's activities.