HER EXCELLENCY ENTERTAINED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18380, 4 February 1928, Page 8

HER EXCELLENCY ENTERTAINED.

At the Queen's Club, yesterday afternoon, Mrs Rolleston was hostess at a particularly delightful reception, given in honour of her Excellency, the Lady Alice Fergusson. Mrs Rolleston. who is president of the Queen’s Club, included on her guest list all the members of the club. The lounge was effectively decorated with large bowls of mixed flowers — hydrangeas, gladioli, roses, and goldenyellow “hot pokers”—while exquisite roses and carnations, in varying shades of pink, intermingled with gypsophila, lent colour and fragrance to the bridgeroom, -where tea was served. Her Excellency wore a graceful frock of pale beige georgette with smart touches of navy blue and a navy blue hat. Mrs Rolleston's elegant gown of black brocaded crepe de chine was worn with a fichu of beautiful lace, and a wide black hat, encircled with an ostrich plume. At the central oval table, with her Excellency, sat Mrs Rolleston, Mrs West-Watson. Mrs Joseph Studholme. Lady Rhodes, Mrs John Studholme, his Excellency’s sister, Mrs Baird, Lady Wigram. Mrs Cracroft Wilson, Mrs Deans, Mrs Hugh Acland, Mrs John Stevenson. Mrs Marmaduke Bethell, and Mrs J. Dryden Hall. Others who had the honour of being presented to her Excellency under such charming circumstances were:—Mrs Tesohemaker, Mrs John Barker, Mrs J. IT. Grigg. Mrs John Montgomery, Mrs Algar Williams, Mrs Gordon Fulton, Mrs Harold Barker, Mrs George M’Uraith, Mrs Burnes-Loughnan, Mrs Geoffrey Kingscote. Miss riumnhrevs, Mrs George Aitken, Mrs James Deans, Mrs W. H. Price. Mrs Cecil Ollivier, Miss Bromley Cocks, Mrs Robert Hennah, Mrs J. M. Turnbull, Mrs H. S. K. Turner, Mrs St John Buckley, Mrs Charles Miller, Miss Joan Lee, Mrs Charles Reid, Mrs Jack Anderson, Mrs Herbert Acton-Adams, Mrs James Maling, Mrs G. Leslie Rutherford, and Miss Betty Rutherford, Miss Harley, Mrs W. Bean, Mrs J. M’Arthur, Miss Bavin. Miss Elaine de Chair, Mrs A’Alpine, Mrs Stanley Foster, Kirs T. Mill, Mrs Cecil Wood, Mrs Cyril Ward, Mrs H. O. Devenish Meares, Mrs J. IT. Hall, Mrs Douglas Deans, Mrs Maxwell Deans, Mrs R. E. M’Dougall, Mrs H. Quane, Kirs Hugh Reeves, Miss Reeves, Kirs Arthur Reeves, Mrs H. Kitson, Mrs IT. D. Acland, Kliss V. Hynes, Mrs Sinclair Murchison, Mrs G. IT. Buchanan, Mrs Frank Graham, Mrs Charles Wood, Mrs Walter Moore and Miss Moore, Mrs Peter Wood, Miss Hart, Mrs Frank Scott. Miss Sanders, Miss John Guthrie. Mrs Neil Guthrie. Miss D. Anderson, Mrs F. W. Bicknell, Mrs R. W. Anderson, Mrs W. IT. Clark, Mrs F. G. Gibson, Miss Jessie Wilkin, Mrs E. T. Reece. Mrs Beck. Mrs B. L. Blunden, Mrs IT. Jellett, Mrs James Hay, Mrs Ross Nott (Sydney). Mrs Keith Garrick. Mrs T. Leslie Croolce, Mrs Charles Macfarlane, Mrs Harold Fisher (Albury), Mrs J. F. Duncan, Mrs W. IT. Cowper, and Kliss Peggy Norton.