HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 14

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

(From- "The Post's" Representative.l The Petone Rowing Club opened their dance season on Saturday night with a record attendance of nearly 400 people.. The club is fortunate in having for its gatherings one of the most picturesquely situated club houses in Wellington and certainly in Pelone, for the clubhouse, on the Esplanade, is less than a chain away from the water's edge, and the windows ot the large dancing hall upstairs and the balcony outside it command a wonderful view of the harbour, set in a coronet of twinkling lights which stretch from Eastbourne through Wellington to the western shores. The hall has been newly decorated in" a striking and original style with broad bands of multi-coloured streamers stretched horizontally, between one heavy roof-beam and another for the whole length of the room, giving the effect of one long pavilion. Rectangles of lattice-work in pale shades, which stand out from the dark roof • above, heighten this illusion,, and the lattice design was repeated in the alcove from which a ladies' orchestra sent forth exhilarating dance music. Mr. J. McLaughlin was M.C. The committee consisted of Messrs. T. Watson (club captain), 1?. J. Boswell (secretary). E. Barraclough, G. Leopard, J. Pegg, W. Wells, H. Nuttall, W. Lind, W. Delany, A. E. Jones, and M. Wells. The ladies' committee which was responsible fpr a delicious supper, comprised Mesdames T. Watsoi*(in green crepon). W. Lind (blue cloque), W. Watson (floral georgette), and A. E. Jones (sage green, Satin).. Among those present were Mesdames E. Goodman, R. Freeman, A. McCaskill W. Kennedy. E. Pritchard, Strickland, H. Thompson. C. Villars, T. Crooks; Misses V. Wood, I. Dixon. A. Kilmister, J. McEwan, L. Bishop. B. Clark, N. Jenkins, M Ahearn, J. Apes, T. May, N. White. J. Mason. E. Luke, J." Clark, S. Turner. E. Norman, E. Ashton, D. Bradon, H. Bennett, L. Mutimer, I. Meder, T. Lower, R. Mutimer. B. Milford, L. Benge, M. Ryan, O. Wilkinson, W. White, P. and M. Kay, I. Neilson, Marie Ryan, S. Small, M. Trevethick, J. Richards, E. Rainsford. A. Cook.'D. Ahearn. A. Woodrow. E. Hammond, A. Lecky. A. McEwan, R. Buckland, G. Thomas, A. Cunningham. G. Barker, E. Thompson, M. Herman, G. Richmond, J. Wakeling. E. Haden, M. Pryke, N. Pryke, D. Costigan, N. Player. E. Higgs. E. Costigan; and Messrs. K. Williams, J. and K. Boswell. J. Howe. Matthew Henry (Palmerston North), T. Mcßryde, John Foster, E. and A. Linney, G. Calvert. B. Worboys, A. McDonald, P. Abbott. C. Gimblett, W. Watson. S. Groom, N. Crombie, lan Willis, W. Smith. A. Gray. Alan Anderson, N. Colgate, Norman Jackson, J. Stamford, O. Nicholls. S. Campbell, R. Johnson, C. Cook, A. Hope, Parsonage, J. Howe, T. Crooks, M. Abb, Barr. Harrison, Fitzmaurice, Senior, P. Smith, K. Flagstaff, and D. Burke.