PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1938, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss P. M. Graham, of Heriot Row, Dunedin, is on a visit to relatives in Masterton. Miss Laurie, of Palmerston North, who has been visiting Masterton, has returned home. Miss Molly Vickery, Wellington, has been staying with Mrs H. A. R. Dunderdale, Lansdowne, Masterton. Mr and Mrs H. N. Kebbell and Miss Kebbell, Alfredton, were week-end visitors to Masterton. Mrs S. V. Gooding, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs A. Chapman, Westmere, Auckland, returned home yesterday. Miss Steele, who has been spending a holiday with Mrs F. Traynor, Pownall Street, Masterton, has left for Dunedin. Miss Lowes, Wellington, and Miss Joan Sutherland, Hinekura, have been staying with Miss Nora Robinson, Masterton. Mr and Mrs Guy Lewis, Alfredton, were week-end visitors to Masterton, where they stayed with Mrs Lewis, senr. Miss Jane Deans, Christchurch, and Miss Susan Holmes, South Wairarapa, are the guests of Miss Leslie Beetham, Masterton. Mrs H. Ahearn, Miss J. Ahearn, Miss Kathrine Herbert, Eketahuna and Miss Barbara Weir, Auckland, were the guests of Mrs K. Groves, Masterton, during the week-end. COMING-OUT PARTY Mr and Mrs H. W. R. Beetham, “Highmore,” Lansdowne, Masterton, held a coming-out party for their daughter, Miss Leslie Beetham, on a recent evening when more than two hundred guests were entertained at the Arcade Hall. Another debutante was Miss Beetham’s friend, Miss June Pettit. The hall presented a pretty scene with its decorations of red oak leaves and blue hydrangeas, and a Wellington orchestra provided the music. Miss Beetham wore a lovely debutante frock of button-holed cream satin made with a high waist and full skirt, and she carried a Victorian posy in shades of pale pink and blue. Miss Pettit chose an early Victorian dress of pale pink taffeta and tulle, with a very full skirt and fitted bodice with a spray of pale pink roses on the shoulder. Her posy matched that of the other debutante. Mrs Beetham wore a gown of tomato red silver embossed eloque with long ninon sleeves, and Mrs Pettit’s dress was of soft petu-nia-shaded georgette. Mrs Norman Beetham, Miss Leslie Beetham’s grandmother, was wearing black, Mrs I. C. Ramsden wore floral georgette and Mrs T. C. H. Miller wore embossed silver’ brocade. The Ranfurly Clubrooms were used for sitting out and for supper, the tables being decorated with bowls of pink chrysanthemums.