AULD FOLKS' NIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1922, Page 4

AULD FOLKS' NIGHT

On Wednesday in their hall in Cuba "street, the Scottish Society and Pipe Band held a special "ceilidgh" for their older members and friends, the Early Ssttlers' Association being 1 specially invited to attend. The large company were treated to' a most enjoyable programme of music, song and dalice by the Pipe Band, Mrs. Scott Allan, 'Miss Stokes, and Mr. Daysh' (Carterton), and the society's Highland dancers, with Mrs. MacMillan as accompanist. 'It was essentially a "free-and-easy" gathering, with intervals for the old folk to meet old and new friends and relate incidents so dear to they who come "frae'hame." During one of these intervals, Mr. W. A. Edwards, secretary of the Early Settlers' Association, gave an account of the arrival at Auckland in the early 'forties of two Scottish immigrant ships. A special feature of the evening was the playing of the haggis by Pipers Kirkpatrick arid Small and the "Ode to the Haggis" by Mr. J. Lothian. The 'haggis was then served i-ound and was greatly relished b"y all. This was followed by the Old Country dance "Patronella,"so seldom seen nowadays. Later on, a dainty supper was served by the Ladies' Committee, and shortly, after 10 o'clock, one of tho largest and most successful gatherings for old Scots .people ever held in Wellington . concluded with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne."