THE CARNIVAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 8

THE CARNIVAL

Town Hall five times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday evenings, and Tuesday and Saturday afternoons. Seats will not be sold by auction, but the box plan will be opened to-morrow. Prices of admission on Monday evening will bo 10s 6d, ss, 3s, and 2s. on. Tuesday and Saturday ss, 3s, and Zs, and there will be special prices at the children's matinee. Special provision will be made at one matinee performance for inmates of the Ohiro Home and the Home for the Aged and Needy. MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. At a meeting of the Patriotic Society executive committee last night, requests were received from Palmerston North and Feilding for Mr. Cardston's services in Carnival efforts. It was decided that these requests must be declined. The treasurer reported funds in hand amounting to £12,000, apart from any sums received by the Mayor. The Williamson. Company's matinee had realised about £350. Taihape, the secretary reported, had decided to hold a Carnival and pay the proceeds into the Wellington Provincial Fund. The treasurer announced that unless money due for books of voting tickets were paid to him by 5 p.m. on Friday, the votes which the money represented could not be credited to the candidates ou whose behalf 'the tickets were issued. CHORAL CLUB'S CONCERT. The Amateur Choral Club, assisted by leading artists, gave another concert in the Concert Chamber of the Town j Hall last night. , The programme in- ! eluded choruses, songs, elocutionary items, and children's dances, all meritorious. < The pleasure of the audience was indicated by numerous encores, j The contributors were the Amateur Choral Club (choruses), Misses Molly Madden, Zelda Baillie, Rita M'Gee, and Doris Symes (dances), Mr. J. Culford Bell (recitations),, Miss Betty Purdom (musical monologue), Miss Violet Mueller, L.A.8., Mr. J. F. Bryant, Miss Irene Fairclough, Mr. L. C. Travers, Miss Nellie Castle, Miss E Harper, and Mr. C. E. Culverwell (songs), and Misses Mueller, Halliburton, and Castle (vocal trio). Misses G. Belworthy and E. Picket acted as accompanists. THE SOLDIERS' CANDIDATE. The people of Wairarapa, it is asserted, have definitely ranged themselves in/ support of Miss, Doris M'Cormack, the soldiers' candidate. An encouraging tour •of the district was completed last night by a party which included Misses Petrie, M'Gee, Batten, Messrs. David M'Laren and Hamilton Hodges, Lieut. R. H. Nimmo, the Kilbirnie Senior Cadets' Drum Band, and a squad ' of bayonet fighters from Trentham. On arrival at . Masterton on Monday the party was met by the Masterton Junior Cadets, and- during a procession some £15 was collected. A concert in the evening was very successful, hundreds being turned away. A flag presented by Mrs* Strang brought £1142 by auction, and other articles sold brought the total up to .£I2OO. Yesterday, accompanied by their candidate, the party went to Carterton, and then to Greytown. Successful street demonstrations were , given in both centres. It is asserted that land worth £4000 has been presented to the soldiers' "Queen," and that the money will be available before the closing of the poll. The band, together with other members of the party, has gone to Palmerston to-day. JOTTINGS. So great has been the demand for tickets .in the Kelburn villa raffle that many people wishing to purchase a. chance 'have been disappointed, and money .remitted from the country for this purpose has had to be returned. The secretary of the Patriotic Society, Mr. J. Lewis, has received scrip representing -Mr. J. M 'Master's £4000 interest in a Waikato land syndicate. ' This interest is to be realised in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund. Raffles and art unions promoted by the West Coasters' Carnival Committee will be drawn at the Palais dAllies on Monday next at 8 p.m., w,hen the public are invited to be present. The large Town Hall promises to be well filled to-night for the "hardup" dance in support of the candidature of Nurse Everitt. A feature of the evening will be several concert items i kindly arranged by Mr. H. F. Wood. | The concert will commence at 7.45 p.m. and dancing at 8.30 p.m.. A small charge for admission will be made to the dress circle until 10 p.m.. A firstclass orchestra has offered its services. 1 Mr. Norman Collie, Mus. Bac, will give organ recitals at the children's concerts in the Town Hall on Ist and 2nd July, instead of on Saturday next, as announced previously. Final arrangements have been made for the special session of the Mock Court to be held in the Sydney-street Schoolroom to-morrow afternoon. The principal "defendants" to be brought before the Court will be members of Parliament. The pearl necklace presented to the Commercial Travellers by Mrs. Maurice Cohen, of Palmerston, on behalf of their Queen candidate, realised £70, and the Venetian, tea service presented by Major A. M. Samuel brought £80. The secretary of the Savage Club calls attention to the fact that admission to the concert to-morrow night is not restricted to members. Early application for tickets (2s) is necessary, as seating accommodation now available is limited. A unique programme is promised. The Wanganui Commercial Travellers have 'sent an oil painting by George Sheriff for the benefit of the fund. ; Last night's count of votes in the Carnival Queen contest showed no alteration in the positions of the respective candidates as published yesterday. Among the gifts to the St. John Ambulance Association for the Wounded Soldiers and Sailors Fund is a kerb fender manufactured by employees of the Wellington Gas Company in their own time. It is a specially fine example of the metal-workers' handicraft. The design is patriotic, and in the front centre is a metal plaque, antique,' silvered, representing a section of L J3attery in action at the Battle of Mons. The casting was from a model executed by Mr. H. Coleman, of Messrs. Foley and Sons. The gift is now on view in the Gas Company's showrooms. Mothers will be interested in the coronation of the Baby Queen on Saturday next, at 3 p.m. A very dainty ceremony it should be, Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool has extended her patronage to the function, and will herself be present if possible. The Petone Queen, with her royal maids, will be at the White House dance at the Lower Hutt Town Hall on Friday, from 8 p.m. Particulars regarding the dance are advertised. ♦ A social gathering, in aid of Mre. M'Vicar, will be held in St. Peter's Hall on Friday evening. To further the candidature of their Carnival Queen (Mrs. W. H. Smith), the Forget-me-Not Club is holding a hard-up dance in the Lyall Bay Hall tornfirrow evening. TO-NIGHT'S ARRANGEMENTS. Sports Bodies' "Hard-up" Dance, Town Hall. Sports Gymkhana. "U" Shed. "Charley's Aunt' 1 Club wid Mias aAUndere'fi ounils, Concert Chamber. t