PRESENTATION MADE IN NAPIER YESTERDAY
A very pleasant party took place yesterday morning in Blythe's Tea Rooms, Napier, when members of the House Committee of St. Mary's Home gave a morning tea for Miss Olive Williams and Miss Aileen Wills, whq are severing their connection with the home and leaving Napier at an early dato. The table was • beautifully decorated — bright scarlet anemones arranged with fern in ^ lovely red crystal bowl iormed tho centrepiece, while green crystal ppsy bowla of anemones had also been placed on the apple green cloth, making a most arfcistic • colour schenie. The guests of honour were the recipients of bouquets very cleverly made with sweets by Mrs Oxford, who was unable to be present. Beference was made to their long associations with- the home, Miss .WiUs having been assistant to Nurse Oarter for the past 16 years and Miss Williams has been with the Home for six years. Dean Brocklehurst, Canon Hodge and Mrs Dawes |>aid tribute to the splendid work done and the loss that would be sustained in saying farewell to two sueh efficient and conscientious workers. Mrs H. Williams then presented Miss Wills with an exquisite rose-pink satin eiderdown and Miss Williams with a beautiful cushion of rose shot taffeta, as a token of C9teem in which they were held by everyone eonnected with the home. The guests of nonour replied. Those present were: Kev. Dean Blocklehurst and Mrs Brocklehurst, Mesdames H. Williams, Herbert Cole* man, W. P. Newton, W. Camerou, Dawes, Watson, B. Norman, Misses O. Williams, A. Wills, Nurse Carter and t'anon A. Hodge, ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 10
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