CABBAGE TREES ON BOARD

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 19

CABBAGE TREES ON BOARD

Ship’s Company Ball The officer of the day was on duty on the gangway to receive the guests of the captain, officers and ship’s company of H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus for the ship’s company ball last evening. The ball was organised by the ship’s canteen committee, and some 300 dancers were present. Cabbage trees (the spoils of a recent raiding party), flags and fountains decorated the ballroom, and during the evening balloons were shot down from the ceiling with a four-inch gun. The band of the First Canterbury Regiment, under Lieutenant D. I. Williams, played from the bridge. Guests were piped in to supper. Mrs E. D. Retallick wore a black velvet ballerina frock. The strapless top was finished with draping caught on the left side with a diamante buckle. The fitting bodite was long-waisted. The skirt fell into unpressed pleats from a cuff at the hipline, caught on the opposite side with a matching diamante buckle. Mrs G. J. Hales wore a princess line gown of pale lavender delustred satin with two deep lilac panniers falling, from the hipline. An off-the-shoulder neckline was cut low at the back.