FISH CRAZE

Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 15

FISH CRAZE

Mayfair, London, is being swept by n craze, for collecting tropical fish (states an exchange). Tanks lit by electricity and filled with a sea garden of rock, c6ral, and green foliage, make fairy-like homes ■for the colourful fish that flash to and fro like swiftlymoving rainbows. Tiny glass .'isli, as their name indicates, are quite transparent; beacon fish have a glowing eye in their head and tail and look like c model zeppelin. with a light fore and aft. Dwarf gouramis appear like piece?, of cloisonne enamel.- and gobis from the Malay Peninsular 'are marked like wasps end lipvc faros li!---; iho bciu.lo.'i uu&'o baby monl;.v, Jubilee!

Mr. and Mrs. Angus McDonald, Mrs. Cecil Wynn-Williams ■ and Mr. Brian Wynn-TWilliams, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Newton, Mr. and. Mrs. C. S. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Rutherford.

Mrs. H. D. Aclandi: Park Terrace, and Mrs. Lance Gowing, Chester Street, also gave sherry parties at their homes, and a "five o'clock" party was given by Mrs. Guy Cotterill, Merivale Lane, in honour of her: guests Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tapley, of Dunedin.

Dinner parties were numerous. A large dinner for young people was given at the United Service Hotel by Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Newton, Ashburton, in honour of their third and youngest" daughter, Nan, who was a debutante at the Hunt Ball. Another debutante for whom a dinner party was given was Miss Joan Preston. Her mother, Mrs. Frank Cowlishaw, invited guests to a buffet dinner at her home in Bristol Street.

Buffet dinners were also given by Mrs. Gerald Sherman and Miss Helen Thompson and Mrs. Bruce Douglas (Glenesk, Greta), who has taken a flat at Victoria Mansions for race week, was; hostess at, a dinner at the New City Hotel. ■

Hawke's Bay and Canterbury visitors were among thos« whom Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Williams (Turihaua, Gisborne) invited to .dine with them at the United Service Hotel. Their party included their daughter, Miss Janet Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Loisel (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Russell (Gisborne), Dr. and Mrs. Lan Macintyre, Mr. and Mrs. William Deans; Misses Jacqueline Ormond (Hawke's Bay), Diana Hunter, Barbara Kebbell (Alfredton), Peggy Acton-Adams, Anne Morrow, Nan Orbell, Margaret Oram, Drs. T. Maling and W. B. Plaits, Messrs. John Ormond, Alister Guild, Gerald Scott, Ben Rutherford, Jim Ritchie, Hugh Hedley, and Peter Norris.