A SURPRISE PACKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 8

A SURPRISE PACKET.

ROT ASIANS' JOLLY HALF-HOUR, An unusual feature was disclosed rafci; j the weekly lunch meeting ,of the Auck-"- : land Rotary Club to-day, when the after- - lunch programme was handed over to" ? Rotarian Wilf. Manning. " r In place of the usual formal proceed-V, ings the acting-chairman proceeded fjfr F present, through the medium of, felloe - j Rotarians and some visitors, a half- /> | hour's entertainment, in which humour' I and wit flowe'd freely. -St The.first item was a musical dialogue'. I between Rotarian 0. M. Pritchard and j Rotarian Len Barnes, in which the pecu- I liarities of individual Rotarians were cleverly touched upon to the tune of a,' j rollicking chorus. Rotarian Robert Laidlaw literally brought down the house with a humorous story, and Miss Mctullay was enthusiastically encored for-.' I her singing of "Ma Ain Wee Hoose," r£& (■. sponding with. "Coming Through th*' .fi Rye." Rotarians Will Holdsworth- and Rocke O'Shea conducted a mock' debate,'. ' entitled "Do Rotarians Make Good Hus- " bands?" Rotarian Maughan Barnetjt vS played the accompaniments. In * ing thanks to the entertainers, Rotarian' C. F. Bennett expressed-the hope that? - 1 having made an excellent start,"the club;.would establish a choir that would ultjk; • i mately be a credit to the city. » . ' \ ■; c' H i