FANCY DRESS DANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 11

FANCY DRESS DANCE.

A children's fancy costume dance was held at Birkenhead on Saturday in the K.A.O. Buffaloes Hall. This proved a most successful and enjoyable function, dancing and games being indulged in, afternoon tea being then served, and every child received a bag of sweets. Songs were sung by Miss Jean Waller. The children's parade to the hall in Mokoia Street from Hauraki Street was a pretty sight. The arrangements were carried out by a committee, comprising Mesdames J. Gracie (organiser), S. Carson, R. E. Walker, J. Mahoney. I. C. Gully, W. Davidson, Percy Roebuck, Menzies, Davenport, M. Swinburne and H. Boardman. The awards of the judges, Meslames Frank Newbold (Auckland) and W. Butler (Birkenhead) were as follow: Tiny Tots.—Best dress, Patty Davies [flower girl) and Peter Davenport (elf); iome-mado paper dress, Elva Harkin [Yates' seed): poster, Betty Brown [Thompson, Hills, Limited) and R. Bur»ess (Bon Bon); original, Joyce Palbridge (Indian girl) and Elaine Kelly (tin soldier). Five years to tor —BestIressed girl and boy, Florence Ivialioney ind Kirk Loggie (bride and bride-p-oom); home-made paper dress, Verona 3alt (ox-eye daisy), and Christopher Paltridge (Red Indian); poster, Audrey Pike (chocolates) and Clifford Fitzgerald (Champion flour); original, S. Sastie (hatter) and Jennie Burgess (vegetable vendor). Ten years to 14.— Best dress, Joyce Jevonica (Japanese *irl), Doreen Wrightson (flower girl) ind Chiplin (rose); poster, Walter ?ugh (newspaper) and Gladys Howarth [Bournville cocoa); original, Jack Fen;on and Bessie Fenton (Dick Whitting;on and cat). Among the other fancy costumes were: Theo Elia, cook; Jessie Sowker, Yates' seed; Willie Carson, )utch boy; Cissie Davies, Mary had a ittle lamb; Pat Price. Mistress Mary; Eileen Brandon, Red Cross Mar-

jorie Horn, Welsh girl; Russell Elia, sailor boy; Nonie Speed, roses; Betty Menzies, Flit; Frank Power, pierrot; Loraine Fitzgerald, Brown, Barrett, Ltd.; Sam Mason, Sam, Sam, the Dirty Man; Cecil Cook, Little man had a little gun; Elva Thorpe, parlour maid; Merle Taft, butterfly; Ronald Davies (bumble bee); Matthew Swinburne, Chinaman; John Davenport, Robin Hood; Mary Davenport, fairy; Ethel Davies, Irish colleen; Trevor McPhail, Indian boy; Pugh, Hawaiian girl; Jessie McKeady,

Red Cross Nurse; J. Paltridge, Father Christmas; Joan Neech, Bo Peep; Bobby Brennan, pierrot; Joan Harkin, Yates' seed; Joyce Turvey, fairy; William Goodall, peanuts; Millicent Pugh, fairy; Eveiyn Pugh, sunflower; Joyce Harkin, YaGis , seed; Naomi Adamson, Irish colleen; Shirley Murphy, gipsy; Laura Fitzgerald, Edmond's baking powder; Boy Stanley, Little Boy Blue, and Robert Boardman, Chinaman.