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of 8 People, Governor Attends Hospital Ball HE Governor (Sir Rohan Delacombe) and Lady DelaT combe were cabaret guests dance at at the the Prince Henry's ballroom Hospital last annual Royale night. Delacombe wore a Grecian- style frock of grassgreen chiffon. The draped bodice was caught with bows at the deep square neckline. During the evening 15 debutantes were presented to the Governor and Lady Delacombe. They wore tical frocks of white iridescent French faille, with rounded necklines and full skirts.

They carried trails of gold carnations and ribbon. hyacinths tied with gold The debutantes were Helen Dimble, Diane Dowler, Kay Williams, Lynette Stone, Rae Wickers, Pamela May, Robin Oberg, Gai Warse, Thelma Furness, Lynette Knoor, Brenda Stoner, Merilyn Currie, Joan Denman, Susan Antonkakis and Diana Edwards. Golden Theme A golden color scheme was used for the decorations. The official enclosure was arranged as a drawing room, furnished with antique gold furniture. Pillars round the ballroom were entwined with gold leaves.

The chairman of the ball committee (Mr. I. L. Schrocomed the official party. and is Mrs.

Schroder welMrs. Schroder wore a slim fitting frock of eau de nil Thai silk, with box pleats at the back of the skirt. She added an eau de nil jacket of chantilly lace. Among the official guests were Sir John and Lady Jungwirth, the president of The Age, Friday, July 19, 1963 After the Wedding Peter Kenneth formerly Miss Margaret photoghaped after their Peter's Church, Toorak. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Iris, and the bridegroom Mrs. H. G. Shaw, of the hospital (Mr.

Milton Gray), Mr. Oliver J. Nilsen, Mr. and. Mrs.

MArK: Burnside, and J. K. Gabriel, Mr. and Mrs. D.

Donald, Dr. L. C. Hudson, Dr. and Mrs.

Keith Bottomley, the matron of the hospital (Miss A. Morgan) and the deputy matron (Sister S. Ewen). Younger Members Loreto of Set held Younger a Gre- set cian festival dance at Ormond Hall last night. White tulle caught with clusters of ivy leaves decorated the walls, and trails of ivy leaves fell from the individual tables.

More than 230 guests were welcomed by the acting president of the younger set (Janet Andrews) assisted by the secretary (Susan Resch). Carol Anderson entertained 24 at her friends home at a at dinner Glen party Iris me before the dance. Among those who took along parties were Leveda Lynch, Sue Gorey, Jill Anderson and Imelda O'Brien. Proceeds from the dance will aid the building fund of the Loreto Toorak Associa- tion. Student Melbour i versity Interest friends will interested to hear of the engageof Michele, youngest daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. C. Allan, of Queen's Road, to Simon Hardinge Reed. Michele, who is an arts Get the glow that goes with HOT CHOCOLATE Cadbury's NEW DRINKING CHOCOLATE There's a new deep chocolate flavour and a captivating chocolate aroma that you and your friends will love.

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Her fiance is the son Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Reed, of Kew.

He is a -year architecture student. Bout The Royal Australian Navy Show added nautical an touch to the opening of the fourth National Boat Show by the Governor (Sir Rohan Delacombe) at the Exhibition Building yesterday. He was accompanied by Lady Delacomoe, who wore a fitted suit of plum wool trimmed with toning velvet reveres. With it she wore a mink toque. They were welcomed by the chairman of the Exhibition Building Trustees (Sir Kenneth Luke) and Lady Luke.

Lady Luke wore a beige flecked wool coat with a Kelly-green head-hugging hat. Wed at Balwyn THE marriage of Sandra Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G.

Stephens, of North Balwyn, with Denis Michael 0'Connor was celebrated at St. Bede's Church, North Balwyn, yesterday. The Rev. Father Kevin Broderick officiated. The bride worn a long gown of white Italian satin made with a detachable train.

A satin band held her denias hand hyacinths. she carried garChristine O'Connor and Geraldine Smith were bridesmaids, and the bride's sister, 12-year-old Julianne Stephens, was junior maid. They wore long frocks of white French silk made with bell skirts. Bow-trimmed bands of the same material were in their hair, and they carried red carnations. The bridegroom is the younger son of Mrs.

M. F. O'Connor, of Upper Hawthorn, and the late Mr. J. O'Connor, formerly of Shepparton.

Luncheon Plans A morning MEETING coffee was over held yesterday at the home of Lady Coles. St. George's Road, Toorak, to discuss arrangements for a luncheon in aid of the Save the Children Fund. It was decided that the luncheon would be held on October 2 at noon, at the home of Lady Coles. Mrs.

Colin Gurner (26 1573) and Miss Jane Teasdale (80 1998) were appointed ticket secretaries. Try Some New Dishes for Lunches and Brunches By Norma Wrigley LL housewives like browsing through new recipe books. These A series recipes of for cook lunch books and brunch in snacks the are United taken from and a new published States, now available here. There are eight books in the series, called the "Creative Cooking Library, which is published by the Meredith Press. Each book deals with a different branch of cookery, from lunches through to party fare and foreign cookery.

Easy Chicken Chow Mein (Illustrated). 2 cups diced cooked or canned chicken. 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup (undiluted). 1 small can pineapple pieces (drained). 1 tablespoon soy sauce.

cup sliced celery. 2 tablespoons chopped 2 spring cups onions. cooked noodles or macaroni. METHOD. Combine all ingredients except noodles, mixing well.

Gently fold in 1 cup of the noodles or macaroni. Turn into a greased ovenproof dish and sprinkle with remaining noodles. Bake in a moderate oven (350 deg. 45-50 min. or until hot.

Serve soy sauce at table. Pots de Creme (Illustrated). 6 oz. (1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate pieces. cup cream.

2 egg yolks. Pinch salt. a heavy saucepan, combine chocolate pieces and cream. Stir over a low heat till blended and satin smooth. Mixture should be slightly thick but do NOT allow it to boil.

Beat egg yolks with salt till thick and light. Gradually stir in chocolate mixture. Spoon mixture into small individual sherbet glasses. (The mixture is rich so only small serves). Cover and chill at least 3 hours or till mixture is consistency of pudding.

Banana Brittle Dessert 2 fully ripe bananas. cup crushed peanut brittle. 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 cup cream--whipped. METHOD.

Peel bananas. slice thinly. Fold Mother and Daughter Team WHILE 15-year-old Coralie Hill is competing in the Victorian gymnastic championships which begin tomorrow at Festival Hall, her mother will be on the sidelines not as a spectator, but as judge of events. This unusual mother-anddaughter combination began about two years ago, two years after Coralie first took up Olympic gymnastics. "I was teaching calisthenics at the time," Mrs.

Hill said. "But when Coralie had to go out two and three nights a week to train, I gave it up to drive her to gym. grew tired of just watching proceedings, so I took a course in judging. Since then I have judged at the Australian championships in Perth Adelaide, as well as Youngest in Grade Coralie is the youngest woman gymnast of A grade standard in Victoria. She trains with the Y.W.C.A., the only senior team in the championships.

During the championships she will compete with such well-known gymnasts as the Victorian champion, Val Roberts, Barbara Fletcher, Pat Freeman, Bonnie Rose, Erin Heath, Pam Granger and Jenny Welsh. Mrs. Hill first set Coralie on her gymnastic career the age of three, when she began to teach her calisthenics. "That is quite different from Olympic gymnastics, though," Mrs. Hill said.

"Calisthenics is more like stage work folk dancing exercises and figure marching, Olympic gymnastics, on the other hand, involves the use of apparatus such as a beam, parallel bars and a vaulting Began at Eleven Coralie began learning this type of gymnastics when she was 11 years old the youngest age at which training was commenced, at that time. Since then the limit had been reduced to three years of age. She said this had greatly increased the popu- Around the Suburbs Fashions, Fabrics THE women's appeal committee of the Preston and North. cote Community Hospital has organised an unusual function to raise money for the appeal. A parade of high fashion lingerie and frocks will be followed by a talk on decor and furnishing fabrics.

The function will be held on Tuesday, July 30, p.m. James in the Street, Epiphany Northcote. Hall, The women's appeal comIt mittee has 10 was members, formed in who April. SO £2000 far for raised more than have the hospital. been Some of contributed this money has by the hosworking with who are pital's auxiliaries, committee.

the women's peal will conclude The apappeal of next at the end month. Tickets for the which Prestige, is being be arranged by parade, from women's the chairman of the can obtained 47 committee (Mrs. J. Tyers, 1186). Babaneek THE Samaritan Fund Women's Hospital Althe Royal moner department will benefit from a cocktail home party at the Toorak of Mrs.

Frank Newman tonight. It has been organised by the Babaneek auxiliary. word Babaneek is an aboriginal meaning mother and child. The group was formed about nine years ago and is the only group which works for the Samaritan Fund. which The receives Samaritan Fund, most of its income from the Babaneek auxiliary, helps patients who sometimes need financial assistance when a baby is born, or in other cases of urgent want.

members year the 36 auxiliary raised £930 for the fund. Help Blind ANOTHER an group aboriginal word for a name is Elanora auxiliary of the Association for the Blind. Elanora means "home by the sea." cheque for more than £800 was presented by the auxiliary to the chief executive of the association Shaw with his bride, Pamela McEwen Browne, marriage yesterday at St. The bride is the elder Erik Browne, of Glen is the elder son of Mr. and Greymouth, New Zealand.

banana, peanut brittle and vanilla into whipped cream. Spoon into four individual sherbert glasses. Chill 1 hour. Top each with a little more crushed peanut brittle. Chicken Croquettes 3 tablespoons butter.

cup plain flour. milk. cup chicken broth. tablespoon chopped parsley. 1 teaspoon teaspoon onion lemon juice.

juice. Dash each of paprika, pepper and nutmeg. teaspoon salt. cups finely diced cooked or canned chicken. 1 cup fine cornflakes or dry bread crumbs.

1 beaten egg. 2 tablespoons water. METHOD. Melt butter, blend in flour, add milk and broth. Cook and stir till mixture bubbles, cook and stir 1 longer.

Add parsley, lemon and onion juices and seasonings. Cool. Add chicken, salt to taste. Chill. With wet hands, shape chicken mixture into balls.

a scant cup each. Roll in crumbs. Shape balls into cones, handling lightly so crumbs remain on outside. Dip into mixture of egg and water, roll in crumbs again. Fry in deep hot fat 21 to 3 minutes Gymnast Coralie Hill takes a pose with the help of her mother, Mrs.

Verna Hill. larity of the sport amongst 23 young people. Last year only girls took part in the championships. This year there were 70. While Coralie trains, her mother studies her movements and those of the other gymnasts, to help her with her judging.

"One must be strictly impartial," she said. "We have a system of judging which is particularly fair. From the marks allotted by four judges we discard the highest and lowest and take the average of the two left to get the result. "Sometimes a referee judge is called on. I shall probably have this task for several events in the she added.

Intermediate Student When not concentrating on gymnastics, Coralie is an Intermediate student at M.L.C., Elsternwick. Mrs. Hill helps her husband with their catering business and reception house at Hampton. Mr. and Mrs.

Hill also have a son, Gregory, 12, who is keen on gym. but prefers football, which he plays at Hailebury College. ENGAGEMENTS Mrs. M. FITZGERALD-HILL-Mr.

Fitzgerald. of Guys Road. Korumburra, have pleasure in nouncing the engagement of their daughter. Carmel Frances. to Raymond Alexander.

son of Mr. and Mrs F. Hill. of Pakineton Street. Kew The engage.

ment announced of Carol. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Indian, of Brishane. to John.

elder son of Dr. And Mrs. Y. Mathew. el Toorak Road.

Toorak. or till golden brown and hot through. Drain kitchen paper or paper towels. Serve with green in cream sauce. Spring Sandwich Puff Under a hot griller toast six slices of bread on one side only.

Place a slice of processed cheese on each untoasted side, grill to partially melt cheese. Remove from heat, and place or 4 spears of hot-cooked or canned asparagus on top of each cheese slice. Beat 3 egg yolks till thick and lemon colored, stir in cup salad dressing, teaspoon salt and a dash of pepper; fold in 3 stiffly beaten egg whites. Pile mixture on top of asparagus. Bake at 350 deg.

F. (mod. oven), approx. 13 minutes or till egg mixture is set. Serve at once.

Serves six. Tweed is New Look From Betty Wilson LONDON, July 18. Hardy Aimes, one of the Queen's dress makers, yesterday morning was the first of the London fashion designers to present his collection for which he deserves a warm vote of thanks from the Australian wool growers. He shows tweed after tweed and often super some evening of his What dresses ground more, even are of firebright tweeds. These have their own long evening coats made of the same material just work out the wool yardage used in these.

Skirt lengths just cover the knees and shift dresses (in coarse tweed )have seams cunningly curved to follow the body line. Wools present an amazing variety of weaves but there are quite number of other natural tea and synthetic fibres creeping in-notably mohair, reindeer, viscose, rayon, crylor, nylon and rhovil. All these are combined with wool to get the luxurious variety of weaves that couture customers expect. Exciting Collection Half the London fashion collections have now been shown and so far the most interesting has been that of designer Michael Upput. It is almost exclusively a suit collection with less than half a dozen reversible top coats.

The collection also cludes two swaggering tightly cinched fur coatsone of Brazilian otter in glistening tan with a vast shawl collar of South American skunk striped in white and tan. The other equally dashing coat combines pale pearl-colored Kalgan lamb with a head-enveloping collar of shaggy black Mongolian lamb. Both were worn with high jackboots. Michael's suits combine longer jackets seamed so as to curve into the bodyline with straight skirts, some of which wrap around front or back. These were worn with hiplength Jumper, tops made of Jersey, silk or chiffon.

His colors are quite fabulous, too, AS in the case of a peacock-green frieze suit buttoned with peacock-blue and worn with a peacockblue jumper top and vast, head-hugging ostrich feather hat. Ronald Paterson also shows longer suit jackets but says that these are for tall girls only. Again, wool, wool brocade, embroidered wool lace, wool gauze and tweeds make up the fabric story. Norman Hartnell's collection 1s starring leopard skin in a big way as trimming. of the association (Mr.

J. W. Wilson) at the auxiliary's third annual meeting. The money will be used to renovate the bathrooms in the old part of the home at Brighton. Members of the auxiliary, with their own money, also presented a self-propelling wheel chair in memory of their foundation president, Mrs.

Christina Wagstaff. At the annual meeting Mrs. F. J. Lain was re-elected president.

Other officebearers are Mrs. R. Edwards, secretary: Mrs. C. Streader, treasurer: R.

Matthews and Mrs. 0. Lewin, vice-presidents. Card Party A will SANDWICH precede lunch the card party at the Australian-American Centre, 120 Exhibition Street, on Wednesday, July 31, organised by of the Bethlehem Hosthe women's auxiliary pital. The auxiliary, formed 12 years ago, was one of the first to work for the hospital.

Money raised has been used to buy beds for the labor ward, and will now go into the building fund. There are 24 members who live the St. Kilda-Brighton area. Mrs. W.

H. Breen is acting president and Mrs. I. G. Wheeler is secretary.

Reservations for the card party can be made with Mrs. Breen (211 2804) and Mrs. Wheeler (53 1847). 38th Year holding at least BY one function every month the Essendon auxiliary of the Queen Victoria Hospital has raised £1471 in the past 12 months. The group's 37th annual meeting was held last week.

The sum of £1871 was given to the hospital for £400 from the A. A. Thomas equipment. This included trust fund. of this 44- member were all re-bearers elected at the annual meeting.

They are Mrs. J. Britt, secretary, Mrs. and Mrs. N.

president; L. Wenzel, Shute, treasurer. Card Party RECIPE THE mayoress of St. Kilda (Mrs. Jeffery a card afternoon to raise Macartney) is arranging funds for the elderly citizens' recreational centre.

It will be held in the mayoral suite of St. Kilda town hall at 1.30 p.m., on August 12, and reservations Mrs. A. C. Watson (91 3147) or Mrs.

may be made with G. Gledhill (96 2518). STOPI Special Coffey FALCON DEAL NOW! SWAP Special Coffey FALCON DEAL NOW! SAVEI Special Coffey FALCON DEAL NOW! Students for U.S.A. THE 19 Victorian students who will go to U.S.A. on August 5 on American Field Service scholarships will attend an orientation week end tomorrow and on Sunday, Chocolate Country students will be billeted in Melbourne for the week end.

Boys and girls will attend separate luncheons tomorrow at private homes and they will be addressed DV students who have return.ed from U.S.A. In the evening there will be an informal party at the Glen Iris home of Mrs. J. Rankin. On Sunday, at the hone of Mrs.

S. Anderson, Toorak, the group will be addressed by members the central committee of A.F.S., who are also members of the Association. The students at present in U.S.A. will return to Melbourne on August 24..

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