WITH THE GOLFERS AT SHIRLEY LINKS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 10

WITH THE GOLFERS AT SHIRLEY LINKS.

SEASON OPENS IN PERFECT WEATHER

Mixed events are always popular at the Shirley links and Saturday, when the official opening of the 1931 season took place, was no exception. The afternoon was perfect and the colourful frocks worn by the women players added to the brightness of the occasion. The popular A. E. G. Rhodes’s Bowl was competed for and Dr Stanle\ r and partner were the winners with an excellent score. The members and friends were entertained by the president (Mr Norton Francis) and the club captain (Sir Cyril Ward), at afternoon tea, the dining room being decorated for the occasion with autumn flow’ers. Among those present were:—Lady Wigram, Lady Ward, Mrs G: Vernon, Mrs F. A. Brittan, Mrs Hallows Wood. Mrs G. Fleetwood, Mrs Ronald Fisher, Mrs Lionel Cooke, Mrs W. Nicholls, Mrs Leonard Banks, Mrs Sampson, Mrs P. S. Foster, Mrs H. S. Lawrence, Mrs R. T. Tosswill, Mrs F. C. A’Court, Mrs G. F. Kingscote, Mrs M. H. Godby, Mrs Fred Banks, Mrs E. H. Clark, Mrs A. C. M’Killop, Mrs J. E. Donald, Mrs M. A. Johnston, Mrs K. I. Warker, Mrs J. 11. Early, Mrs Frater, Mrs M. G. Louisson, Mrs F. W. Freeman, Mrs W. E. Best, Mrs A. E. Barker, Mrs H. Wauchop, Mrs 11. S. Williams, Mrs Derek Gould, Mrs H. W. Macfarlane, Mrs J. H. Williams, Mrs F. I. Cowlishaw, Mrs H. O. D. Meares, Mrs B. Todd, Mrs J. F. Duncan, Mrs Roy Buddo (Hawke’s Bay), Mrs W. T. D. Harman, Mrs C. C. Garrett, Mrs Kissling, Mrs E. J. Pumphrey, Mrs R. C. Svmes, Mrs R. Cracroft Wilson. Mrs Denys Hoare, Misses Farmer (Blenheim), Ruth Macfarlane, Doris Ronaldson, CameronSmith, Isabel Turrell, May Newton, Peggy Norton, Halmai Longham, Valmai Fleming, M. Archey, Rita Cra-croft-Wilson, Jessie Wilkin, I. Cowlishaw, Edna White-Parsons, Dorothy Chrystall, Betty Kiver, Hazel Elmslie. M. Enright, N. Enright, M. Sheridan (Sydney), Dulcie FleetAvood, Gertrude Browne, Betty Webb, Norah Hoare, Elsie Macfarlane and May Cracroft Wilson.