SHORTAGES' FROM BALL
(By telegraph.)
SUPPER . PILFERED
CSpecial- to the "Evening Post.'') AUCKLAND, August. 10.. ; The disappearance of -/nearly £10 worth of crockery and talilo silver from tho Town Hall supper-room after ! the Arabian Nights Ball; which :was held in furtherance of the ' Prosperity j Week fund on August 3, is, disclosed, in the accounts presented to the organis-.! drs for "shortages." "The supper-room was closed at midnight on ' the ' night of the ball, but when I camo down to help;in counting tho returns next morning, I was amazed to see the list of things that were missing," said: Mrs. David Nathan, chairwoman of the Bupper committee. "It is not merely a matter of broakaires, bn-t of things that were taken away. *I am told that .some people took 'dishes of trine home: for their chilclron. If that is so,'many of them have ' forgotten to bring > the dishes back to me. It reveals an cxtraordnv. ary mentality. I suppose.they do not realise that their actions were dishonest." , Mrs. Nathan said that while she was in the supper-room on, the aiornmg after the ball a-man handed in a brown paper parcel which, when opened, contained a trifle dish. She had been informed that?v other dishes had-been returned in the same way.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 12
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SHORTAGES' FROM BALL
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 12
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