COSTER BALL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 182, 30 April 1941, Page 4

COSTER BALL

Traffic Officers’ Support For Transport Queen A,successful Coster ball, organized by members of the Wellington City Council traffic department, took place in the Town Hall last night and realized a substantial sum in aid of the Transport Queen’s campaign in the Victory

Queen Carnival. Miss Paddv Hope Gibbons, the Transport Queen, and her six princesses, Misses Molly McKenzie, Heather Angell, Ngaire Aplin, Patricia Liardet, Audrey Anderson, and Joan Conquest were present, Miss Gibbons wearing a striking coster hat trimmed with os-, trich feathers and a smart black georgette frock with a silver fox fur cape.

Many of the guests were dressed .in the traditional button-trimmed aud gaily-coloured coster costumes, ami threw themselves wholeheartedly into a round of old-time favourite dances, led by the “Lambeth Walk.” Prizes were awarded ror the best costumes. A pojralar feature on a coster supper was “hot dogs.”

With the queen and princesses in the official party were Messrs. Liardet, P. Hanson and Baillie, the last-named being the chairman of a large combined committee of traffic officers and their wives, who were responsible for organizing the dance. Mr. Tlckner was secretary and Mr. Hood M.C.