SEAMEN ENTERTAINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 13

SEAMEN ENTERTAINED.

BRITISH SAILORS' SOCIETY. Hydrangeas in pastille shades made 'beautiful the hall of the British Sailors' Society on New Year's Night, when local and overseas seamen listened to an entertaining programme. Items included a- Maori legend in song and story by Mrs. H. T. King, elocutionary items by the Misses Targuse, Mrs. T. Clark and Mr. Sydney Carter; songs by Mrs. Geo. Shaw, Mrs. S. Carter and Mr. W. Rutlidge; concertina items by Mr. Mead, and cornet solos by Mr. T. Hancock. The accompanists wfe Mrs. MacKinney and Miss E. Mather. Two 'pf the workers, Misses Webb and Hodkineqn, were the recipients of beautiful floral bouquets. These two ladies. nI«P distributed "diddy" bags (cretonne jwall pockets filled with useful, articles) 'to the men from , overseas. Two of the 'seamen expressed the thanks, and appreciation of all present. The concert was organised by Mrs. T. Clark,' ; while Mr. T. Clark occupied the chair. ) The. supper was augmented by a beautiFfully iced Christmas cake sent by Mrs. Riddel. > • The concert was one of the various ways in which the visiting-seamen were entertained during the festive season. A well attended and greatly enjoyed outing was held on Boxing Day. Lunch and tea were provided in the open. On the return to the hall games and community singing were indulged in. Happy parties of men sat down to special teas on Christmas and New Year Sunday. Svine service and community singing hymns followed. Several parties of men were taken sight-seeing on various occasions to the War Memorial Museum and Mount Eden. The men were all presented with "diddy" bags made by the women members of various Church guilds. ChristBias pudding and cakes were also supplied by friends and greatly appreciated by the men. An interesting sidelight on the cosmopolitan character of 'the work carried on by the British Sailors' Society is the fact that the men present at the service and community singing of hymns on New Year Sunday t came from New Zealand, Sydney, England, Scotland, Ire-j land, s Zanzibar, New . York, Durban; Johannesburg, Bombay, Calcutta, pore, Federated Malay States, Rangoon, Palmerston Island and Samoa.