TO BID FAREWELL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 18

TO BID FAREWELL

MR. AND MRS. ARMOUR ENTERTAIN

Spring flowers and Iceland poppies were set in bowls about both receptionrooms in Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Armour's home in Wellington College yesterday afternoon, when a number of old friends of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. McIlra'ijth gathered at a farewell party in their honour. Mr. Mcllraith during his term of office as chief inspector of primary schools has made a very wide circle of friends, and his intention to make his future home in Auckland is regretted by his Wellington colleagues. Mr. Mcllraith, who has only recently retired, with his wife will lea re on Monday for the north.

Several speeches were made during the afternoon, although the party was very informal. Mrs. Armour, who received the guests with her husband, was wearing a hostess gown of gentian blue velvet!. The Misses Margaret and Alison Armour assisted their parents in entertaining the guests. " i

Those who were invited were the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, and Mrs. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Lambourne, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Beeby, Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Watt, Miss Hetherington, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Leeming, Mr. and Mrs. Lan McKenzie, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Parr, Mr. and Mrs. E. Caradus, Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson, Miss E. M. North, Miss N. G. Isaac, Mr. and Mrs. D. Macaskill, Mr. and Mrs. Lomas, Mr. T. Brpdie,. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Dyer, Mr. L. McKenzie, Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Lopdell, Mrs Knox Gilmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bird, Misses "Holm (2), Mrs. Murdoch-McLedd, Mr. and Mrs. Edie, Mr. and Mrs. F. Martyn Renner, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Banner, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Ashbridge, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Deavoll, Mr. and Mrs. J. Savage, Mr. and Mrs. F Holdsworth, Mr. W. H. P. Barber, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field, Mr. W. B. Fitchett, Mr. W. H. Denton.