GOING ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 4

GOING ABROAD

Travellers' Aid Secretary Farewelled

A very pleasant afternoon tea was held yesterday when the stall' of the Wellington Y.W.C.A. met in the association’s lecture room to farewell the Travellore’ Aid secretary, Miss W. Beaumont, who will leave by the Awatea tonight for a trip abroad. The general secretary. Miss L. W. Bridgman. expressed tlie good wishes of ibe staff, and Miss Beauniont, in a brief farewell speech, spoke of the great value of travel to Y.W.C.A. secretaries. Miss Beaumont is going to’England via Australia and tlie Suez Canal, and intends to return through Canada and the United States. Iler trip is a holiday, but she will visit other associations and social welfare centres to study travellers’ aid methods. She expects to return to New Zealand at the end of November. Her place as Travellers Aid. secretary will be tilled by Miss Irene Davidson. Auckland.

With tiie date of the first debutante bull fixed, debs’, frocks are a burning question. What about a replica of Julie’s gown in “Jezebel”?—white stiffened net, witli the Victorian ol’f-the-. shoulder line, and a billowy skirt frilled from waist to hem. Or, more sophisticated (from “Pygmalion”), a gown of cream moire taffeta. with straight front and sides, and all the width bunched into gathers at the waist, flowing into a train. Diiimente shoulder straps peep from ninter Hie little coat. Or. again, ivory georgette, with a very wide skirt falling with classic simplicity from a softly- gauged bodice, finished with a posy of forget-me-nots:—-from a lovely collection of debs.’ gowns at Anna Gay, 34 Manners Street.—Advt.