CHEERY LUNCHEON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 18

CHEERY LUNCHEON

YOUNG CONTINGENT

ENTERTAIN

Farewell parties for next season's visitors to England have already begun, one of the earliest travellers to be feted being Mrs. J. A. Doctor who will leave shortly with her husband for a leisurely cruise through the East Indies before proceeding to South Africa and England.

As president of the Victoria League, Mrs. Doctor was the guest of honour yesterday at a delightful, buffet luncheon party given by the Young Contingent of the League at the Grand Hotel. Sweetpeas in shades of pink and mauve were attractively arranged in shallow crystal bowls on the table, and tall vases' filled with delphiniums and rosy gladioli were effectively placed on the piano and about the rooms.'

Mrs. Doctor was wearing a tailored^ frock f of cameo pink with a navj^ redingote and picture hat to mat<s}i. Lady Buckleton, patroness of the 'Wellington branch of the League, w/ore an ensemble of navy blue heavy crepe with touches of lapus lazuli blue 'and a navy toque. Miss Amy Kane, (who will be acting president during/Mrs. Doctor's absence, was frocked in/black and white, her wide-brimmed feat of glossy straw being finished wAth a cluster of white flowers. Mrs1. L. A. Williams, the retiring secretary of the league, who is also , leaving to go abroad, was wearing' a blatk model in wool georgette with a Mejxician hat of fine felt. The organisers of the party, Mrs. B. McKinlay ami Miss Patricia GJedhill, wore respectively navy sheer with a white pin spat design- and brown and white figured silk with hats and accessories to match,!

The pleasantly informal atmosphere of a buffet lunch gave,'all the young people an opportunity of mingling together and chatting with the guests of honour. While coffee was being enjoyed Mrs. McKinlay;* made a short speech in apreciation of Mrs. Doctor's services, and presented ■ /her with a small gift from the contingent to mark the occasion. A similar presentation was made to Mrs. Wlilliams; both travellers receiving all good wishes for "bon voyage" and "happy landings." They were also accorded musical honours.

Among those present were Mrs. C. E. Corrigan, Mrs. Hampton Brown, Mrs. H. F. Bollard, Mrs. John Smythe, Mrs. Gordon McjCallum, Mrs. D, Rodie, Misses Jean Bu'ckleton, Gwenda Nor-man-Jones, Jeah Knox Gilmer, Winifred and Yvoiane Vickery, Noeline Cramond, Berrafice Hogg, Nancy pixon, Marjorie Gibbons, Irene- Norris, Barbara Gillespie, Mollie Rodie, Ruth Skerman, Holen Wynn-Hesse, Marjorie Osborne, Dodo Cardy, Neil Kendall, Phyllis Turnbull, Ida Lockwood, Nedra McDonald,'Rachel Simpson, Myfanwy Davies, Mary Ross, Muriel Hunt, Janie Turner, /Sylvia Parr, Marguerite Thompsovi, Evelyn Robins, Frances Gardiner, Elspeth McArthur, Olive Munt, lyiona Brien, E. Ford, Rere Beckway, E. Mollison, Eila Hutchinson (Auckland), a