MELANESIAN MISSION.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 24 November 1931, Page 10

MELANESIAN MISSION.

Bridge Party to Aid Funds. HELD AT JELLICOE HALL. Bridge parties are greatly in favour at the present time as a means of raising money for charities and other worthy objects. Last evening at the Jellicoe Hall a well-organised bridge party was held to aid the general funds of the New Zealand Melanesian Missionary Society. In addition to the usual decorations which brighten the hall, bowls of mauve rhododendrons and shaded lupins in blue and pink were tastefully arranged on- the platform. This was the second successful effort for the mission funds, a tennis party having been previously organised by Miss Roi de Pass. The bridge party was arranged by the members of the following committee: —Mesdames F. N. Taylor, Jenkins, W. H. Clark, A. Paintin, G. W. Dent, E. W. Pidgeon, G. Lee, P. Robertson, Misses Hiatt, M. E. Lawrell, K. White, Barbara Bloxam and Roi de Pass. Those present were:—Archdeacon F. N. and Mrs Taylor, Colonel and Mrs F. W. W. Dawson, Mr and Mrs E. V. Worthington, Mr and Mrs C. V. Hughes, Mr and Mrs J. Ft. Evans, Mesdames W. H. Clark, J. Evans, Sydney Jones, E. G. M’Cullough, H. Y. Widdowson, C. C. Davis, B. E. H. Whitcombe, J. E. L. Cull, J. C. Schneider, G. Rich, J. W. Bridge (Wellington), L. J. Darwin, J. Scott-Baker, J. Watkin, JH. E. Robins, A. B. Ellis, E. Bayley, C. L. Green, T Glanville, Wynn-Williams, W. E. Rogers, F. Potter, E. M. Booker, S. E. Booker, A. J. Dunne, J. E. Russell, E. W. Pidgeon, O’Loughlen, J. du Feu, R. Owen, B. Steven, Harold Cordery and ;WynneYorke, Misses Greenstreet, Lucy/Youngman, Mona and Nancye M’Cullough, Dorothy Pengelley, Gwen Nottingham, Hiatt, F. C. Hiatt, Jessie Dawe, M. Ray, E. Turner, Janet Macfarlane, J. Horth, Freda Jennings, Stella Edwards, Gwen Smyth, Mavis Reese, Margaret Beal, D. Thomson, V. Youngman, A. and D. Satchell, C. Gosset, Holderness, M. Holderness, M. Brown, Doreen Hight, Ena Fleetwood, Roi de Pass, Barbara Bloxam, Kathleen White, Dorothy Kernahan, Cecelia Twyneham, Mabel Bigg-Wither, Ruth Taylor, G. A. Miller, B. K. Merton, M. Alexander, K. E. Bays, Mabel Smith, W. Halliwell, May Smith, F. Stark, M. Bishop, E. Bishop, Livesey, R. Buckhurst, Vera Stewart, M. Stewart, Joan Potter, Helen Bretherton, Margaret Clark, Edith Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Hanna, Berrie M’Rae Peacock, Reta Smith, Margaret Talbot, Eileen Wilson, Dorothy Taylor, Kathleen M Namara, Esme Thomson and Joyce Burt, Messrs Baird, Luxton, H E Booker, H W. D. Blake, S. R. Cuming, Maitland Biggs, David Taylor, G. H. Mirams, J. G. D. Ward, J. Joynt, L. Dawson, J. Curnow, J. Williams, R. P. Taylor, Donald and Peter Woodward, J. B Williams, Jack Bretherton and Desmond Her re ft. Those assisting by having tables in their own homes were:—Mesdames C. H Gosset, H. D. Andrews, Arthur Cook, f! H. Polhill and Robertson. e Donations were received from:—Mesdames A. H. C. Orr and J. P. Andrews Misses Barbara Bloxam, Ada Fairbairn A. Bowker, Stella Purchase, Dora Warren, Maberley Beadel and Betty Kiver.