MELMERLY OLD GIRLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 5

MELMERLY OLD GIRLS

BRIDGE AFTERNOON < T i , I A bridge party and tea was given in c the Orient Tea Rooms, Newmarket, on £ Wednesday afternoon, by the Melmerly , Old Girls. The club called the function its < “Gratitude Bridge Tea,” as it was given 1 in celebration of the club’s achieving the first £2OO that it had promised to 1 find, after strenuous. work during the last two years. Mrs. Arthur Wright, president of the club, received the guests, and the rooms were prettily decorated with ferns and flowers. The first prize was won by Miss D. Tewsley and Mrs. Abbott won the second. An amusing guessing competition during the afternoon in connection with a trousseau was won by Miss B. Hood. Among those present werq:’— Mesdames Cruickshank, Whitley, Wright, Perkins, Parkes, J. O. Luston, Evans,, Hardley, Evans, Dowding, Osborne, Potter, Guthrie, Bell, Woolley, Wallace, Ballantyne, the Misses Newton, Dalton, Mac Cormack. Fitzpatrick, Johnston, Buick, Upfill, Harris-Wright, O'Neill, Duncan, Harrold. BAKERS’ WIVES AT TEA A successful afternoon tea party was I given in the Tudor Rooms yesterday | by the ladies of the New Zealand j Master Bakers’ Association, in honour | of the wives of the visiting delegates, j who are attending the conference. Mrs. Mathieson, wife of the retiring j president, acted as hostess. Over 75 women were present, and the tables j were attractively decorated. A huge ! basket of blue irises were on the centre table, and there were quantities of sweet peas in delicate shades and a j charming little souvenir posy on the plate of each guest. j