RETURNED SOLDIERS CLUB.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 9

RETURNED SOLDIERS CLUB.

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY,

Th« club rooms of tho Returned SoliliciV Association were gaily 'decorated with bunting and hung with mistletoe and holly yesterday afternoon, when a Christina* tea and entertainment were given. Last Tear Misa K!e:< Cooper and Miss Cox arranged the CUi isluiu* party, and Miss Cooper, who is now in Australia, recently sent a request to her parents to eee that the tea, was again given, »"'• accompanied her request 'with a aubstanlia) donation, which vnu devoted to tfte pur«u.u.o of a large Christmas cake. The tea was ;itovided by tho Women's National liesorfe.

Yesterday's gathering proved to be ono of the- most enjoyable yet held in th<>, club. Quite a hundred, returned men attended, and all spent a really good time from 3 o'clock till e. '

A willing concert party provided an excellent entertainment, and amon»«t the einjjPrA, musicians, and reciters ttcto Messrs Sydney Hayuea Rod Hunlly Spenoer, of tho l"i»W Jubilee Singera, Miseee MiUieent Jennings, Elsie and Muriel Brewins, and.Avmitnge. Mr and Mrs Louis B!o". ,md Mr Sojrlc, vhile Miss Denby acted ..«.>.oiupiini3t. . Every item was heartily and deservedly encored.

Tho Christmas cake, which was gaily and appropriately decorated, *» cut up and distributed, and after tea Air W. E. Leadky, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, briefly thanked Miss Cooper, Ihe Wonwn'e isational Kwwve, and tlk» Performer*, and expressed the heartfelt appnciation of tho returned men at the entertainment they had receivod.