FOR PRIME MINISTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 15

FOR PRIME MINISTER

A FAREWELL SOCIAL

Many hundreds of citizens gathered together at the Town Hall, Auckland, when a farewell-social* and- dance was held in honour of the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M, J. Savage. The hall was beautifully decorated, long festoons of roped manuka being studded with golden tinted electric lights. These radiated from a centre of large green lights with a feathery canopy overhead. Beneath the gallery were hanging baskets of fern,' and long mirrors outlined with fairy lights and framed- in manuka and long-stalked belladonna lilies adorned the walls. The stage, which was occupied by the official party, was decorated in garden fashion, banked at the back with bamboo, tubbed cypress trees, and exotic plants, across which were set quantities of belladonnas. On the front of the platform were pots of flowering begonias, and waving green

grasses. The supper room was arranged witn flags, the "decor" for the table being of zinnias, dahlias, and asters. The official party consisted of the Mayoress (Mrs. Ernest Davis), Mrs. D. G Alfrey, Mrs. J. T. Jennings, Mrs. M. Dreaver, Miss Esme Mitchell (Australia), and Miss Molly Nolan. There were addresses of welcome, and a programme of dances, sea shanties, recitations, songs, items by the Lyric Trio, and a duct.