COCKTAIL PARTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23135, 6 September 1938, Page 3

COCKTAIL PARTY

ENJOYABLE FUNCTION LADY ORFORD'S DEPARTURE MRS. T. H. OAKES AS HOSTESS A most enjoyable cocktail party was given yesterday by Major and Mrs. T. H. J'!. Oakes at; their flat in Princes Street in honour of the former's sister, the Countess of Orford, who, with her daughter. Lady Anne Walpole, and her guest, Miss Juliet Ridley, will leave for England this week. The rooms were most attractively decorated with howls of pink gladioli, freesias and hyacinths.

To receive her guests Mrs. Oakes wore a graceful frock of black dull crepe with a sash in two tones of mauve. Her daughter, Miss Poppy Oakes, was in seafoani green crepe embossed in a white leaf design, and Lady Orford wore a black crepe frock with a bolero embroidered in honeygold, and a black hat.

In addition to Lady Orford, Lady Anno Walpole and Miss Ridley, the guests invited were:—Sir Ernest and Lady Davis, Sir Henry and Lady Horton, Sir James and Lady Gunson, Lieutenant-Commander P. Dawnay and the Lady Angela Dawnay, Major and Mrs. R. G. G. Byron, LieutenantColonel and Mrs. X. W. McD. Weir, Captain and Mrs. A. G. X. Wyatt, Hon. aud Mrs. Eliot R. Davis, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. B. Milsom, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. X". Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Buddie, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hull, Mr. and Mrs. Wills McLaughlin, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dove, Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Gunson, Mrs. David Xathan, Mrs. M. Chautrey. Miss Irnia Mitchell. Miss Dorothy Wood, Miss Barbara Hickson, Mr. J. G. Groeninger, Mr. Courtney Atwool, Mr. Lawrence Xathan, Mr. Wallace Gunson. Mr. P. Bull, Mr. J. Ewen, Mr. P. Hewitt.