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i : ; In yiew of Jier approaching departure,, ! for Wellmgtoiv,/Mrs : J.: tf H)son Smith-•---j-'-wa s - onY Friday " afternoon entertained^ at • ' an afternoon" ; tea .by "the members of the " First Church'- Women's . Uuild and -Friendly Y Committee;^ , Tho :Jiieetingi Ywhich Ywae : held in the^hail of "the -■: ' Plr^'.'^^tirci ■ was of a very .cordial .arid enjoyable hiture, the ladles vicing .with each other :hv providing «D : ticing dainties, and -in;' diffusing ah -atmosphere of. kfndly bospiI tallty.y In the Ycourse; <>f the afternoon^ I Mj» l^ninie, on behalf ; of the. Wonien'ear" Guild- and Friendly Committee, present- '• •'-.""■ ! ed Mrs/Smith; wtthia hte&utiful opal ahd diamond .ring, in rieepgriition' of ' berY services as a uiemheroj-the Guild, andespecially as . its treasurer fro*n the ber ginning of its history.Y In the course of. her remarks, which w^r© evidently made with, deep fediugY/MrMjjfflaiue alluded- to the number of years which YMrs -- Smith Yba&Y, been, associated with thW^ members" of the Guild as a regulars" worker, . and .to the^ capacity' I . «ind ' dill--gencewtth.: which^sheYhad. discharged the'r' duties, of the treasurer's - om'coVattribut- ' ing' no small part of the suiegss which ' had attended the Guild's operations to the j assistance rendered by.. Wnr Sitflit.h;' .-Mrs. i ■ l l r e»iii& - concluded byi exprfessinff -th^-heai-ty . -wishes 6t the -r Guild for Mi^Y Smithes happiuessc and- prosperity in her* --. Y now s;>here: - Sih'er serviette brings," "with^ engraved;, ihitiala. were also presented to each > of Mrs- Smith's three little girls as mementos^of their association with First Church. The Revi J. Gibson Sniith f h^ ing. ,s.'4tahly rephed, . in, his usual happy v of :hj».wife daugh'i - ters,, the rest of -the afternoon . was devoted to music and conversation.
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Southland Times, Issue 19114, 3 August 1903, Page 2
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