AFTERNOON PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1932, Page 6

AFTERNOON PARTY

VISITORS ENTERTAIN -

Charmingly./arranged.-.-bowls of gladioli -in varying ■shades i -decorated the! Palm Lounge off the Hotel: St.George yesterday/afternoon, when '.a number pf friends wete' entertained1 "by Mr. and Mrs. O; H. M6Cornack and Mr. and Mrs. G. Behh, of Detroit, who aro spending some: months in' NeW Zealand. The first part of the afternoon was ■dovoted to bridge, which was played in an adjoining room,', where .beautifully floured gladioli and branches of copper

birch were attractively blended. , Mrs. McCornack wore a smart frock of sand coloured "Jnarocain , with/ a cluster of clocolate brown flowersiiin the centre of the corsage? Her email hat was of the same shadeof brown.- Mrs. Behn wore a frock and three-quarter coat of smoke grey georgette with yoke of needle-run lace,-and a grey hat.-Mrs. McCoinack's daughter, Mrs. Pat Ward, who assisted as hostess, was in a pale sage green marocain suit with wide yoke and cuffs of trellised: marocain. Sho wore a wide brimmed hat of- beige Bangkok straw. Several extra guests arrived to tea, which, was served at small tab^s in the Palm Lounge, and the men folk joined the party, at 5 o'clock. The guests included.Mr. and Mrs. Macarthy Reid, Mrs. Bernard Wood, Mr. Pat Ward, Mrs. J. B. MacEwan, Mis. and Miss Webster, Mr. and Mrs. J. /Duncan, Dr. and Mrs. C. Morice, Mrs. H. M. Gore, Mr. and Mis.' Phillip Cooke, Mrs. and Miss Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. H. Nathan,- Mr., Mrs., and Miss Malfroy, Mrs. F, Beading, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Beid, Mrs. Morton Paterson, Mr, and Mrs. Ken Begg, Mrs. J. Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Stott, Mr. and Mrs. Pritchara, Mr. ana Mrs. Pat Williams, Mt. and Mrs. John Agar, Miss Butts, Mr. and Mrs. G. Mills, Messrs. W. Gregory, J. C. Crawford, R., and E. Gore, B. and L.Beid, F. Petre, D. Begg, and Whiting (Melbourne). _'