ANNUAL STAFF DANCE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 2

ANNUAL STAFF DANCE

PYNE, GOULD, GUINNESS, LIMITED

VISITORS FROM COUNTRY BRANCHES The annual dance of the staff of Messrs Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., is always held on a Friday evening to give representatives of country branches an opportunity to attend and spend the week-end in the city. Yesterday, however, many of the country staff had to alter their plans because of the difficulty of motoring. Most of the country visitors present had motored in early in the morning, and those who came through last evening from Ashburton, Timaru, and Methven were the centre of little groups of friends, all eager to know the depth of .snow through which they had motored. The annual golf match had been played during the day at the Shirley links and resulted in a victory for the stock department, and later there had been dinner parties arranged by city friends. At the Winter Garden, where the dance was held, a mass of wattle in the vestibule gave a hint of spring that the temperature out of doors did not warrant, and in the ballroom wellknown members Of the staff found themselves the subject of clever caricatures displayed on the walls. As its honoured guests the committee had invited Mr and Mrs George Gould, Mr James Maling, Mrs E. 3. Pyne, Mrs C. W. Reid. Mr and Mrs F. M. Warren. Mr and Mrs Derrick Gould, Mr and Mrs James Morrison, Mr and Mrs Maurice Warren, and Commander David Boyle. Members of the efficient organising committee were Misses Linda Davidson. Nelle Hall, Messrs George Francis, E. H. Watkins, W. J. Mac Gibbon (treasurer), and W. H. Fenner (honorary secretary). Mrs Pyne wore a black panne velvet frock, the high-necked bodice being shirrpd and caught at the throat with a pearl ornament; Mrs Reid’s knifepleated black matalasse skirt was topped with a belted tunic of black taffeta, hand-painted in pastel and gold floral posies; a crimson cluster of flowers with touches of blue trimmed the neckline of Mrs Morrison’s frock of black, white, crimson, and blue floral silk crepe; Mrs Maurice Warren’s frock was of ice-blue triple ninon with a swathed sash of sapphire-blue ninon, a corsage spray being of pink and blue flowers; Miss Linda Davidson wore a full-skirted frock of cerise ninon with fuchsia and cerise coloured anemones and violets at the neckline of the ruched bodice. Music was supplied by the BaileyMarston orchestra, and bridge tables were arranged for guests who did not wish to dance. Amongst those present were Mesdames C. V. Ritchie, E. G. Moor, L. W. Broadhead, H. G. Farrier (Ashburton), George Mulligan (Ashburton). D. A. Lawson, George Hanham, E. R. Sullivan, C. E. Evans. D. Macbain Stewart, Keith Wallace, E. Waters, Lawrence Walt, Trevor Clarkson (Pleasant Point), Norman Farrant, C. S. Hammond. C. H. Clemens. Eric Watkins, W. J. Mac Gibbon. R. Powell, E. Parsons (Ashburton). G. McCrostie (Ashburton), Harman Warren, Charles Rich, H. R. Escott, W. F. Stark, Norman Wright, Bercnd Sluis, Mcrvyn Walls (Timaru), A. L. Moffat. Fred. Smith (Ashburton), H. S. Billcliff (Ashburton), Norman Withell, J. Oakley, L. Ryan, W. Peers, N. Okey, G. B. McCredle. Ri Egan, George Francis, Keppel Archer, lan Menzies, Lionel Cooke. Misses Jessie Wilson, Olive Robson, Ruth Fear, Jane Donnelly, Katherine Clarkson, Shirley James. Nancy Holden, Betty Yellowlees, Lilian Main, Fay Hammond, Valerie Reid, Enid Macdonald, Gwen Main, Dorothy Christie, Ina Cullen, Jo.m Lapthorne (Geraldine), Eileen McDavitt, Joyce Sladen, lona Maine, Dorothy Cole, Joan Evans, Tirla Trent, Peggy Johnstone, Shona Anderson, Ena Williamson. Mabel Osman, Muriel Davidson, Betty Dewhurst, Jean Stevenson, Mollie Lill, Mollie Larnach, Bunny Anderson, Leah Park, Enid Seed, Shirley Buchanan, Joan Harkess. Elsie MUlholland, Blanche Efford, Brownie Freeman, Norma Sanford. Molly Dickson, Betty Pritchett, Vera Sheehan, Grace Dysart (Kirwee), May Bedford, Wyn Foreman. Joan Davison, May Callaghan, Rhoda Aspinall, Elizabeth Fear, Enid Arlow, M. Raven, Shirley Jamieson, Diana Russell, Margaret Staniland, Noreen Russell, Ngalre Harris, Peggy Kennedy, Mabel King, Sheila Parker, Mary Gorman, and S. Callaghan.

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