AFTERNOON PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 11

AFTERNOON PARTY

OLD LEGISLATIVE ROOM

The old Legislative Council Room, Parliament Buildings, with its old photographs and Cook Island curios, is always interesting to visitors, and tho guests at Mrs. C. E. Macmillan's "at home" yesterday afternoon had an opportunity of studying them at close quarters.

Tea was set on a long central table, an unusual square bowl of beautiful dahlias in varying shades of reds and browns forming a. centrepiece. With them were blended fern fronds bronzed at the tips, producing a charming effect. Tall vases of scabious also were placed hero and there on the table.

Mrs. Macmillait wore a Burgundy coloured crepe-dc-chine frock with beige vestce and reviers, and a small matching hat with a chou of velvet at the back. Miss Macmillan, who assisted her mother as hostess, wore a two.piece suit of champagne-coloured crepe de chine, the jacket being bordered with large embroideries in tones of orange and brown. Her small hat was to tone.

The guests included Mrs. Sprott, Mrs. G. W. Forbes, Mrs. J. G. Coatcs, Lady Myers, Lady Sidey, Lady Statham,' Lady Bell arid Miss Bell, Lady Day, Lady Luke, Mrs. B. McCalluin, Misses McGregor, Mrs. A. E. Ansell, Mrs. P. A. de la Perrelle, Mrs. W. H. Field, Miss Field, Mrs. A. Hamilton, Mrs. B. W. Hawke, Mrs. E. F. Healy, Mrs. H. Holland, Miss Jull, Mrs. E. A. Ransom, Mrs. H. M Rushworth, Miss Downie Stewart, Mrs. B. A. Wright, Mrs. J. A. Young, Miss Young, Mrs. Harold Abraham (Dunedin), Mrs. D. Ardell, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. D. Bauehop, Mrs. Blathwayt, Mrs. Bollard, Mrs. Brandon, Miss.S. Brandon, Mrs. Brown (Masterton), Mrs. E. H. G. Coleridge, Mrs. J.. Hunderson-Dickenson, Mrs. E. E. Gillon, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Guthrie, Mrs. T. D. H. Hall, Mrs. G. A. Hart, Mrs. J. Hislop, Miss Irwin, Mrs. Wallis, Mrs. P. James, Miss James (Fiji), Mrs. E. W. Kane, Mrs. W. R. King, Mrs. Larnach, Miss Lysaght, Mrs. Fraser Mackenzie, Mrs. C. M. Malfroy, Mrs. J. Mitchell, Misses A. and M. McLean, Mrs. J. O'Shea, Mrs. Penseler, Misses Richardson, Miss D. K. Richmond, Mrs. J. W. Rhodes, Miss Rhodes, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. G. A. Troup, Mrs. J. Williams, Mrs. A. E. MeLeod (Wairarapa), Mrs. Murdo Mcßae, Mrs. J. Pow, Miss Yeitch, and Mrs. S. D. Burnett.