FRIENDSHIP IDEAL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 13

FRIENDSHIP IDEAL

Aims Of Victoria League

Friendship as a fundamental ideal of the. Victoria League was stressed by Mrs. L. O. 11. Tripp in her welcome to new members at a morning party in Wellington yesterday in their honour. The executive and committee of the Wellington branch entertained those who had joined tlie league since the end of last year and several members recently returned from abroad were welcomed back. In whatever overseas country members travelled where the Victoria League had brandies members could be sure of finding friends who would do their utmost to arrange pleasurable excursions and to make the visitors’ stay a memorable one, Mrs. Tripp said. Even as long ago as at the time of Edward VIPs Coronation in England, the Victoria League then only a nucleus of its present self, formed a shiall committee to entertain overseas visitors. Mrs. Tripp, who was one of such visitors, told of receiving an invitation through the league from Lord Salisbury to visit his historic home at Hadfield, where among interesting things she saw a gardening hat that had been Queen Elizabeth’s. The pleasure of having met Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, who was acting as hostess at the league rooms in London, was described by Miss F. E. Kershaw, who, as a member returned from abroad, spoke of the friendliness shown by all at the league headquarters. _ A visit to Bonar Law College, outside London, on foundation day was another enjoyable experience. Mrs. C. Hamber, a member from Hawke’s Bay, now beloning to tlie Wellington branch, spoke of her pleasant experiences with the league while abroad recently.

Those present included Mrs. Larnaeh, a vice-president, members of the executive, Mrs. D. Rodie, Mrs. A. A. Gramond, Mrs. O. E. Corrigan, Mrs. J. Barrington Smythe and Mrs. W. H. Gledhill. Mrs. P. de B. Brandon, Mrs. R. B. Gibbons, Mrs. H. Clay, Miss NormanJones, committee members, and Mrs. A. M. Carr, Mrs. M. Searle, Mrs. Percy Thomson. Mrs. Blakeley Williams, Mrs. Eric Walcott, Miss Florence Fitzgerald, Miss Nellie Donovan, Miss M. Rodie, Miss M. Gledhill, Miss Rita Thomson, Miss Firth, Miss H. Wiltshire.

Tea was served by Mrs. Rodie and Mrs. Gledhill, assisted by Miss Mollie Rodie and Miss Marie Gledhill.