HUNTING AND DANCING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 15

HUNTING AND DANCING

HAWKE'S BAY FESTIVITIES

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

The last few days have been very gay in Hawke's Bay. On Thursday and Saturday the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club held their winter meeting with exceptionally good racing and a very enthusiastic crowd present, including numbers of visitors.

The hunt, with Mr. T. Sherratt as master, had a great day on Friday, when they met at Bridge Pa, a few miles out of Hastings. Many of the hunt members had been busy from first thing in the morning decorating the assembly hall for the annual ball, so it was quite a rush to be out at the meet by 12.30 p.m. There must have been some fifty riders and there were many interested followers in cars.

The ball went with fine spirit from the opening waltz. Several cocktail and dinner parties helped to give it a good start. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Herrick, just settled after their honeymoon, gave a big cocktail party, as also did Mrs. B. Harris, of Onga Ong.i. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hunter, of Porangahau, arranged a very bright Yankee dinner for fifty at the Service Club, and Mrs. Jim Lowry had one at the Carlton. Another was that given by Miss J. Hunter for Miss Norma Stewart—a debutante at the ball. Still another was one for "unmarrieds," given at the Pacific, about seventy being pre-

sent. Miss Shield and Miss F. Patti son were the organisers.

The hall looked wonderfully bright and attractive with masses of gay balloons across the ceiling and huge clumps of blossom, while the stage was flanked with poinsettias, with Iceland poppies, giving a vivid note of colour. Mrs. J. Hunter was in charge of the hall decorations.

The home-made supper of savouries and sweets, etc., was a "real hunt" one. Mrs. James Macfarlane and her band of helpers had made the tables very attractive with holly berries, and Mrs. Pat White's cleverly-painted woodcuts of the hunters and hounds going over fences were much admired. Mrs. White also executed the attractive hunt posters around the walls of the hall,

The ball was considered the gayest the Hunt has ever given, and dancing was kept on till all hours, concluding to the chorus of "John Peel" and other old favourites.

There were present the master (Mr. Thornleigh Sherratt) and Mrs. Sherratt (the latter wearing a beautifullycut gown of black angelskin, relieved at the corsage with a spray of pink flowers), the deputy master (Mr. J. N. Lowry) and Mrs. Lowry (in a wellfitting gown of black), and deputy master (Mr. A. P. White) and Mrs. White (the latter in a becoming shade of yellow velvet). Other deputy masters present were Mr. W. Parsons (Waipukurau) and Mr. T. Sutler (Tikokino).

CRICKET CLUB DANCE The Oddfellows' Hall, Allen Street, was well filled recently with a cheery throng of members and friends of the Excelsior Cricket Club, who had gathered to take part in the club's first dance of the season. A very happy evening was spent in dancing and competitions, and items were given by Messrs. McClellan and Meecock, and an exhibition of tap dancing by Miss May.

Those present included: Mesdames George Jackson, Muir, Reeve (2), W. Forbes, McClellan', Gaby, Wood (2), Cooke, Galloper Creswell, Gellattby, Gillespie, Misses L. Harrison, E. Ellis, D. Gilly, Donaldson, P. Palmer, D. Ellis, Hall, Futter, Ransley, Warren, Reeve (2), Gaby, Hayes, May, Natta, Pedersen, and Messrs. Gellattby, sen., Gellattby, jun., Amies, Forbes, Reeve, McClellan, Myers, Jackson, Muir, Tingey, Graham, Meecock, Dyer, Higgins Love Jamieson, Cade, Wood (3), Morgan, Warr, Rowntree, Baker, R. Harris, Ambler, Read, Maltby, Mason, Hermdal, Horsfall, and Master Reeve. PLEASANT BRIDGE PARTY In the cosy hall, kindly lent for the occasion by Mrs. Crothers, Derwent Street, the Plunket committee of Island Bay recently held a very successful bridge party. The fifty guests assembled thoroughly appreciated the cheery room and enjoyed their game. The ladies' prize for the highest score was won by Mrs. Palmer, and Mr. A. Buckland carried off the men's prize. A dainty home-made supper was served by the committee. Those present included Mrs. A. Hornblow, Mrs. C. Hornblow, Mrs. W. J. Costley, Mrs. B. Brown,.Mr. and Mrs. Burdett, Mr. and Mrs. White, Mr. and Mrs. B. O'Brien, Miss Gardner, Colonel J. G. Hughes, Mrs. Sea-brook-Mason, Mrs. Boocock, Mrs. Wing, Miss Wiltshire, Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Wilkinson, Miss Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Cook, Mr. Toules, Mr. and Mrs, Buckland, Miss Coy, Mr. Rishworth, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw, Mr. and .Mrs. Dilloway. Mrs. Janson, Mrs. Hand, Mrs. Hogan, Mrs. Tullock, Mrs. Petrie, Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Johnsen, and Mrs. P. Mason.