SECOND INDUSTRIAL PARTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 5

SECOND INDUSTRIAL PARTY

GOVERNMENT HOUSE EN FETE (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Monday. A second well-arranged and successful party was held at Government House on Saturday afternoon, when there was a still larger gathering of members of Wellington industrial works than that of last week. The afternoon was a particularly pleasant one, the weather being most favourable, quiet sunshine being the order of the day.

Just before three o’clock streams of guests were wending their way to Government House, the bright colours of the many smart winter coats and hats being charming in contrast to the grassy banks and lawns. Indoors the long tea tables were again set in the ballroom and in the wide closed-in verandah at the side of the house. Freesias and pale-coloured jonquils adorned the tables, and there were high bowls of arum lilies and foliage effectively arranged about at intervals. Groups of conservatory plants, with vivid-coloured blossoms, were in contrast, and in the drawing-rooms spring flowers were in evidence in all directions. Their Excellencies arrived with their suite, and were assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Day, Mrs. Sprott, Mrs. K. S. Williams, the Mayor and Mayoress, the Hon. R. A. Wright and Mrs. Wright, Sir John and Lady Luke, Mr. and Mrs. P. Fraser, Misses Dorothy Hadfield, Mary Warren and Lady Fergusson’s two younger girls. His Excellency gave the same cor-

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dial and kindly welcome to the guests as he had done on the previous occasion, and asked them to visit all parts of the house, pointing out that it belonged to the country, and it was his wish that the people should know all about it, and he hoped that they would look at his curios and possessions, too, as he enjoyed their being a pleasure to others. Some went immediately on a voyage of discovery, and others had tea first, which divided the party satisfactorily and conveniently, and all had a mo.-;t enjoyable time. The orchestra played brightly, and people talked continuously, and altogether both hosts and guests appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The garden was visited by a great many, and the promise for the summer blossoming was well talked over, and the plan of the garden admired. It was quite late in the afternoon before the last of the guests departed, and it was generally agreed that the two Saturday parties were among the pleasantest ever given at Government j House.