New Zealand Association.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 15, 9 April 1913, Page 60

New Zealand Association.

SL’t < ESS IT L WHIST DRIVE IN LONDON.

(From Our Lady Correspondent.)

LONDON, February 28.

Spacious as is the reception room set apart for the entertainments given by the New' Zealand Association in London through the winter months it will soon

bo found necessary, if these increase in popularity at the rate they have been doing, to take in other rooms for nearly a hundred and twenty guests sat down at the whist drive held on Wednesday of this week at the Westminster Palace Hotel.

As a result of the evening’s play Mrs. Obert, with a score of 2116, was declared the winner of the first prize for ladies, a silver scent bottle. Miss Ada Hill, with 201, the winner of the second, a large silver and enamel hatpin stand and hatpins, while Mr. Bull, with 20.5, carried oft' the first prize for men, a morocco (rocket book, ami Miss Patou the consolation prize for a lady playing as a gentleman—a case of blouse buttons and studs.

klrs. A. M. Marks presented the prizes, and amongst those present were Miss Peake, in shell-pink satin and charmeuse with a \ -shaped corsage of cream lace; Mrs. Obert, in dull green with a handsome stomacher of blaek and gold; Miss Wright, black satin and sequins; Mrs. Marks, blaek silk, the bodice trimmed with braces of autumn tinted lace; Miss Aileen Marks, deep apricot ninon and dark fur; Mrs. Hammond, pale champagne colour and guipure lace; Miss Gladys Cook, pale grev ninon; Miss Mina Caldow, very pale pink charmeuse. the bodice vainly ked on to a cream corsage; Mrs. Joseph Michael, black silk lace with a beautiful berthe of cream Spanish lace; Mrs. Percy Cox. black chiffon with touches of white: Miss Ely', cream spotted net and a shoulder scarf trimmed with bands of marabout; Miss Norton, blaek ninon over white with touches of blue; Miss M. Norton, black ninon over white and a black and emerald hair ornament; Mrs. Mason, crimson velvet slashed with iridescent sequined net; Mrs. Wilkie Jones, black chiffon trimmed with insertion set with coloured stones; Mrs. Clayton, pale blue ehiffon over blue charmeuse and a black Spanish lace searf; Mrs. Boys, very pale eau de nil ninon over buttercup charmeuse; Mrs. Warburton, deep cream satin under black and gold; -Miss West, blaek silk; Miss Flere, ivory crepe de chine; Miss —- Flere, red and white; Miss Kennaway, mauve ninon over pink trimmed with silver; Mrs. Alington, black ninon with handsome motifs; Miss Hart, dull black silk with a cream lace berthe; Mrs. Moffatt,, blaek silk the bodice being trimmed with beads; Airs. Snow, white silk and lace; Mrs. H. Grey, blaek and white lace over white; ('aptain Moffatt, Mr. Wilfrid Findlay, Mr. Snow, Mrs. Chadwick, in pale blue; Mrs. Cowell, Mr. Boys, Captain Warburton, Mr. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Paine, Colonel Robin, C. 8., Mr. Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. Turpin, Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, Mr. Charlton, Mr. Arthur Hart, Mr. H. Alington, Miss Katherine Wilkie Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Thirkettle, Mr. Wix, Mr. R. B. Brett. Mr. E. C. Moffatt. Mr. A. Kislingbury. Messrs. Marks (2),' Mr. Mason, Mr. I’ani Chamberlin, Messrs. Kennaway (2), Mrs. Kennaway, Mr. H. Turtill, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Dowsett, Mr. J. A. Burt, Mr. Fowler, Captain and Mrs. Clifford, Mr. W. G. Johns, Miss Young, Mr. Joseph Michael. Mr. Tlirop, Mr. K. Maurice, Messrs. Boak (2), etc.