TE ARO SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 116, 12 November 1935, Page 17

TE ARO SCHOOL

FANCY DRESS PARTY

Last Saturday afternoon a children's plain and fancy dress party was held at Te Aro Infant .School on The Terrace, when two hundred children from the' three schools with', their parents and friends spent a very enjoyable afternoon.

• Community singing, organised games, dancing, and elocutionary dtems were thoroughly enjoyed by the adults as well as the children. 'Refreshments were; served by the ladies of Te Aro Schools' Association.

Some of the prize-winners for fancy costumes were: The two best pairs, Betty Paynter .and Ralph Wilkins (Costers), and Elsa Shaw and Dorothy Fitchett (Russians); Joan Boyd .(early Victorian lady),: Jean Ivin (old lady), Joyce Cooper (Chinese), Shirley Nancarrow (Miss 1935), Gloria Gotleib (tramp), Fay Lesley- (Victorian lady), Yvonne Black (chicken), Master • Nancarrow (departed spirits), Peter Tennant (cook), Gerald Gotleib (Indian), Master Dexter (Coster1), lan Thomas (Indian), and Keith Duncan (pirate).

SYDNEY NEWS

HOLIDAY-MAKERS RETURN

A visit to the Governor-General of New Zealand (Viscount Galway) and Lady Galway at Government. House, Wellington, was included; in the holiday tour of New Zealand made by Miss Ivie Price, private secretary to Lady Hore-Ruthyen, and Miss Priscilla Feilden, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." Both girls returned to Sydney by the Wanganella. .

They were away for a month, and during that time toured both islands, visiting most of th,e beauty spots. Miss Feilden, who has managed to':'%ee a good deal of Australia since she arrived early in the year, will sail for her home in England at the end of, the month.

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beatty, wellknown singers, returned by the same ship after eight weeks in New, Zealand, where they combined a honeymoon tour of the two islands with a business trip, as both were engaged by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board for a series of recitals. Mrs. Beatty was Miss Heather Kinnaird, and is noted for her beautiful contralto voice. She was most impressed with the Government broadcasting station, IYA, at Auckland, which, she said, was the best she had yet seen. There was nothing here to compare with the magnificent building and its studios, furnished with chromium and glass, where all preparations are made for television, she remarked. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty chose a perfect way of seeing the five lovely lakes in the Dunedin district. They chartered an aeroplane, and spent the day in flying over the lakes and the snow-capped mountains that rise sheer from the water's edge.

Another beauty spot visited was the famous Waitomo Caves, where they travelled along an underground river to see the cave, lit by myriads of glowworms. The journey was made in complete silence, as even the sound of human voices would frighten the glowworms, which would immediately be-

come dim.

Now they are back in' Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. Beatty will settle in their new home at Lindfield.

A BUSY COUNTESS

"CATTERY" IN DOREST

In the pretty Dorset village of Longham liver. Britain's busiest Countess— 7 and she cares for more than a hundred cats, states an exchange. She is the Countess of Hardwicke, who, singlehanded, runs a "cattery," where champion Siamese are being produced.

The Countess has won no fewer than 200 prizes at cat shows. She runs a little hospital for sick cats and takes in cat "boarders." Famous people leave their cats in her care while they are away on holiday.

"I love cats, but once I hated them," Lady Hardwicke said in an interview.

"Every morning I rise at 6 o'clock to see to the feeding of my cats. Each has its own little house, with a garden, and a tree to climb.

"The menu includes fish, beef, raw or cooked liver, and rabbits. Breakfast consists of ground rice made with goat's milk."

Since, their arrival at Longham the cats have become veritable Pied Pipers. The rats put up with their presence for a time and then decide to vanish!

Now that winter is approaching, the Countess is introducing electric stoves into the cattery! "Cats love warmth and I hate'to think of them feeling the cold," she said.