ST. ANDREW BURNS CLUB

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 3

ST. ANDREW BURNS CLUB

Successful Evening Organised By Women Members The St. Andrew Burns Club held its annual “ladies’ night” on a recent evening, when there was a large attendance of members and friends, Mrs. Andrew Hogg being in the chair, supported by Mrs. Mackay and Miss Shanks. A special welcome was extended to Mr. Ewing, of Aberdeen, who is at present travelling the world. In bis opinion New Zealand was very similar to Scotland, said Mr, Ewing, and the present gathering seemed more Scots than those at Home. During the evening vocal items were given by the following:—Miss Bever-

idge, the club’s oldest member, Mrs. Rait, who was 87 last birthday, Mrs. Crawford, Miss Shanks, Mrs. Mackay, Miss Shirley Turtle. Miss Turtle also gave elocutionary items, and instrumental duets of Scots airs were presented by Mrs. McGowan and Mrs. McWhinnie, and piano solos by Master Albert McGowan, aged five years. Scots community songs were sung, and bagpipe selections were given by Pipe-Major MaeCallum. The accompanists were Mesdames McGowan. Crawford, and McWhinnie, and the song leader Mrs. Mackay. The meetting was organised aud run entirely by the women members of the club, and was an outstanding success. Supper was served by the male members. The meeting closed with the singiug of "Scots Wha Hae” and “Auld Lang Syne.”