TE KUITI CLUB.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 317, 3 December 1910, Page 5

TE KUITI CLUB.

| OFFICIAL OPENING. Te Kniti Club was formally opened | on Thursday afternoon when the members gave an "At Home," to which a i large number of guests had been in- ; vited. The visitors were received by ■ Mrs R. C. Jordan, wife of the Presi- : dent, and Mrs N. C. Matthew, wife of the Vice-President, and enteri tained to afternoon tea. Some one hundred guests and members were ' present. The rooms had been charmi ingly decorated with flowers and presented a fresh and pleasant, appearance. The club is to be congratulated upon its successful inauguration. It commences its career with a membership of about one hundred, and will serve as a convenient resort for town and country members. The catering was under the charge of Mr E. J. Thomson, and was admirably carried out. The club building has been erected for Mr J. B. Hooper, by Mr S. J. Sheldon, contractor, from plans prepared by Mr J. W. Warren, architect, of Hamilton. The internal fittings were supplied by Messrs Blaekma.n and Cobb, of Te Kuiti. The club building comprises a spacious entrance hall with a reading room 20ft by loft, and a temperance bar 9ft by 15ft, on the left, two card rooms 15ft by 14ft, forming, by means ot folding doors, a social hall of 30ft by 15ft on the right, and a fine billiard room of 21ft by 30ft at the rear, together with the usual offices, etc. The club is designed to ultimately carry an upper story. It is a well-designed structure, , all the ceilings being of Wunderlich ! steel, with ventilators, the walls papered in tastefully quiet colours, the floors laid wi'.h artistic linoleums, and the doors and woodwork of solid moulded rimu. A minor feature is the antique English door handles. Outside, the club has been designed to have a small garden batween it and the street: a pleasant green oasis in a wilderness of corrugated iron, when once it is in order.

Our lady correspondent writes:--Amongst the ladies present I noticed: Mrs K. Jordan, in black merv. with black toque; Mrs N. C. Matthew, pretty creme lace frock, hat to match; Mrs Dransfield, grey costume trimmed with black, pretty black hat; Miss Martin, smart creme serge mauve hat with pink roses; Miss Graham, pretty muslin frock black hat with feathers; Mrs Kelso, dainty white muslin white hat to match; Mrs Zobel, pretty muslin frock toque wich roses; Mrs Arthur Johnson, white with saxe-blue hat; Mrs Stevens, blue dress with black hat; Mrs Gres ham, tussore silk dress cream hat; Mrs Julian, brown silk mauve hat; Mrs Duncanson, black; Miss Jordan, white frock brown hat; Mrs Cowan, navy silk dress cream hat; Mrs Pine, grey costume black hat; Miss Pine, vieux rose, black hat with roses; Misa I. Pine, creme frock; Miss MacKenzie, frock- of shrimp muslin white hat; Mrs Fullerton, white frock black hat; Miss Sinclair, pink linen white hat with black; Miss Warren (Hamilton), cream muslin with roses; Mrs Cheal, blue frock mole hat; Mrs Johnson, muslin frock hat to match.