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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8355, 15 February 1913, Page 12

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February 13. Mr and Mrs Booth (Waverley) are in town lor the races.

Mr and Mis mcnibald Clark (Auckland) are staying at tno Mountain Hostelry. Mr and Mrs De Guerrier and Mr and Mrs Fox, all of Wellington, have also been staying at the Hostelry. Among otner visitors staying at the Mountain Hostelry are Mr and Mrs Lougguth (Auckland), Mrs Geoige (Auckland), tno Misses Laiug (-1)-Unglewood), Mrs and Miss Fuukio (Auckland). Mr and Mrs A. Alexander, oi Moturoa, returned this week from a delightful visit to England. The Taranaki Jockey Club’s summer race meeting was held yesterday and to-day. 'Tno attendance was very good, a great many visitors being present from Hawera. Stratford, and other towns. Among those present yesterday were: Mrs Blundell, gray shantung coat and skirt faced with saxe blue, black toque with plumes; Mrs Newton King, blue poplin coat and skirt, black hat with white plumes; Mrs Sidney Allen (Dunedin), saxe blue shantung coat and skirt, white hat with blue aigrette; Mrs Paul, mauve shantung with hip panels and trimmings of guipure lace, hat to match wth purple roses; Mrs (Dr) Bennett (Blenheim), cinnamon brown shantung, burnt straw hat with shaded black and brown plume; Miss Cunningham, royal blue cloth coat and skirt, hat massed with blue hyacinths; Mrs Pitzherbert. black voile, long black silk coat, black plumed hat; Mrs W. L. Fitzherbert (Palmerston), sapphire blue shantung with guipure lace, ecru hat with crimson roses; Miss L. Fitzherbert. mulberry crepe, white hat; Miss S. Fitzherbert. pale blue silk, hat to match with pink roses; Mrs Morris Standislr (Tarata), white embroidered muslin, black hat; Mrs Ivan Staudish, smart white embroidered linen coat and skirt, tuscan hat lined with floral silk; Miss Bessie Wordsworth (Auckland), white muslin, white net and lace coatee, black hat swathed with vieus rose tulle aigrette; Miss Queenie Glenn (Hawera), smart sulphur-coloured cloth coat and skirt, black tagel hat with ruche of white ostrich feathers; .Mrs Wilfred Perry, gray coat and skirt with blue facings. black hat with plumes; Mrs F. Carthew, gray floral muslin, gray hat with plumes; Mrs Moyes, navy costume, black and white hat; Mrs Walker, black silk with fringe, white ostrich stole, black hat with lancer plumes; Mrs G. Weston, cream clotn coat and skirt, black bat with long white plumes; Mrs Glasgow, gray coat and skirt, white ostrich stole, black toque with crown of bright pink roses; Miss Glasgow, pink crepe, -white hat wreathed with pink roses; Mrs Kebbell, cinnamon brown tweed coat and skirt, burnt straw hat with black feather; Mrs Harry Matthews (Waitara), cream striped coat and skirt, ecru hat with black plumes; Mrs Percy Webster, heliotrope crystalline with lace, floral hat to match; Mrs Paget (Stratford), biscuit shantung coat and skirt faced with saxe blue silk, saxe blue beaver hat with long gray plume; Mrs Booth (Waverley), cream Sicilian coat and skirt, white hat with tiny cerise roses; Mrs Penn, reseda silk coat and skirt, hat wreathed with small roses; Sirs Honan, saxe blue poplin, black hat with bine plume: Miss K. Penn, white emliroidcrcd muslin, blue and white link; Airs T. Anderson, white and black striped silk, pink satin hat with plumes; Miss K. Saxton, pale blue charmeuse with of fine cream lace, large white

hat with lace and small roses; Mrs Prichard (Dannevirke), white embroidered muslin, white hat wreathed "with small crimson roses; Mrs A Alexander, bottle green taffetas, trimmed with Dneutal embroideries and silk fringe, white ostrich boa, black tagel hat with long white plumes; Mrs Gruickshank, navy poplin, gray ostrich stole, hat with lime roses; Mrs Percy Lawson, pink muslin, black hat with pink roses; Mrs vyallick, ciel blue crepe, blue and white hat; Miss Mackav, tweed costume, violet hat; Al l -II Olive 'Mackay, champagne sponge cloth cent and skirt, bat to mulch with black aigrettes; Alias Brewster, cream coat and skirt, black hat with white tulle choux: Alisa Cupel, saxe blue silk, black plumed hat; Mrs Hall, light gray charmeuse, black hat with plumes: Mrs Uhaner. champagne poplin coat and skirt, black toque with pink roses; Mrs R. Outfield, gray poplin’coat and skirt, gray ostrich boa, black hat with pink rosea; Miss K. Leatham, white crepo with embroidery insertions, white hat. The weather was fine but colder to-day, and coats and ekirts were more worn. Among those present wore: Mrs 0. Samuel, light gray-coat and skirt, white ostrich stole, black hat with plumes; Airs Brewster, navy costume, black and white hat: All’s Paul, bronzegreen charmeuse with Oriental embroidery, velvet hat to match with green plumes; Mrs Bennett (Blenheim), gray coat and skirt, with Tuscan hat with white lancer plume; Airs Percy Webster, gray tweed coat and skirt with facings of emerald green, black and green hat with plumes; Mrs Gruickshank, black and white check tweed, gray ostrich stole, black plumed hat; Airs AVilfred Perry, white muslin and lace gown, black and white plumed hat; Mrs Leatham, white

and black striped taffetas, blue race coat, black hat with blue plumes; Mrs Penn, nattier blue tweed coat 'and skirt, blue and black hat with blue plumes; Miss K. Penn, navy coat and skirt, emerald green hat with plumes; Mrs Walker, white lace robe over white silk, white ostrich boa, black and ecru bat with pink roses; Mrs Paget (Stratford), biscuit shantung coat and skirt, golden brown and black tricorne hat with brown aigrettes; Mrs W. AVebster (Stratford), saxe blue striped phanfona, white boa, black hat with blue plume; Mrs Robinson (Stratford), • gray coat _ and skirt, black and while, hat; Mrs G ribbon (Auckland), nattier blue cloth with Oriental trimmings, black hat with blue plumes; Mrs W. Bayly, gray voile, blue and black hat wreathed with blue primroses; Miss B. Wordsworth (Auckland), violet woollen shauutung, violet hat wreathed with roses the same shade; Mrs E. Griffiths, light biown tweed coat and skirt, brown hat with plume; Miss Mackay, heliotrope and white floral silk, with tunic of guipure lace, violet hat; Miss Olive Mackay, pink and bhio shot taffetas coat and skirt, trimmed with flat makings, cream lace hut wreathed with small flowers; Miss Cunningham, white taffetas veiled with black muon, tunic edged with deep vandyked lace, white hat with aigrettes; Airs Leslie Nolan, white satin with draped tunic of black fancy net, white hat draped with lace and wreathed witn pink roses; Mrs Ken. AVebster, gray striped crepe, black hat wreathed with pink rosea; Mrs Ashcroft (Vancouver), tussore silk, natural shantung race coat with deep blue silk collar and rovers, black plumed bat; Miss Blundell, champagne poplin coat and skirt with black satin facings, saxe blue hat with upstanding cluster of blue roses; Miss Glasgow navy coat and skirt, gray hat; Miss ju. Fitzherbert, black and white striped silk, gray and hlack hat; Mrs R■ Cock, mole-coloured satin coat and skirt, black plumed hat. Dr and Mrs Bennett (Blenheim) are tho guests of Mrs Paul. Dr Bennett leaves to-morrow for a six months visit to England.