MEDICAL CORPS BALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 18

MEDICAL CORPS BALL

2ND FIELD AMBULANCE SCENE OF VIVID COLOURS When the 2nd Field Ambulance of the New Zealand Medical Corps held their annual ball in St. Francis Hall last night the Officer Commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Montgomery Spenber, and Mrs. Spencer were the official host and hostess. • They and many, others • had entertained large parties beforehand, with the result that frojn the beginning there was an air of easy festivity about the ball. The hall was bedecked with flags and bunting, and the members of the dance band, seated on. the stage;' were sur-; rounded by ferns. Ferns were also ar- \ ranged in all the alcoves and on the landings on the stairs. These decorations were in themselves sufficient to create a- gay scene, but when; the floor was crowded with dancers, many of the women, wearing particularly attractive frocks and their partners the uniforms of the various services, the effect was brilliant.. . The colours of the 2nd Field Ambulance are maroon, blue, and gold and a panel of streamers in. these colours formed a centrepiece down each of the long tables in the supper room. Pale green baskets and vases, filled v with masses of orange Iceland poppies, also decorated the room and tables, and orange paper napkins completed the bright colour scheme. Those on the committee responsible for the arrangements of the ball were Captain E. L; Button (chairman), Captain Allster Young, Lieutenant J. G. Oliver (secretary), Lieutenant J.-K. Elliott, .C.S.M. H. H. Bunckenberg, C.Q.M.S. A. Gracie,'and Corporal J. R. Barrett. ' 1 Among those "who accepted invitation were Major-General Sir William Sinclair-Burgess, Captain W. R. D. Oliver, R.N., and Mrs. Oliver, Captain W. J, Hope-Robertson - and Mrs. HopeRobertsonr Captain Alan Tenrierit arid Mrs. Tennent, Major John "Plimmer and Mrs. Plimmer, Mrs. Young, Mrs, Button, Captain C. G. Kemp and Miss Kempl Mrs. Elliott, Captain J; 0. Mercer and Mrs; Mercer, Lieutenant Av N; Slater and.Mrs. Slater,. Staff-Sergeant ii. W. Bunckenburg, Sergeant C. Watsonj Sergeant It (Button. (Auckland). Sergeant' R; AhdersOn, Dr. arid MtS. Cohehi Dr 1 . and" -Mrs.J. T. Harding, Lieutenant M'.- G.\ Patefcson tandi Mrs. Paterson, Mh .and- Mrs. >J. W. Ward, Lieutenant Walter Ellington, and. Mrs. Ellington, ColonelF.: T. Bowerbank and Mrs. Bowerbank,:.Dr, arid Mi's; Nash, Mr. and Mra.' BaSli: Whitcombe, Mr. K. Herbert, Lieutenant-Commander J. A. Smyth,. R.N ; Y4., Mr. 'arid Mrs. R. Webster,, Captain. G. H. Heal, N.Z.S.C., aiid Mrs. Heal, Mr., and Mrs,' .E. R. Myers, Dr arid.Mrs. E.,M, :.GrMßp," Mr. and Mrs; Norman Mackie, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ward ell, Mr. and Mrs. R, Tolhurst/ Dr. arid Mrs. E; L. Dn:/and Mrs. R. O'Regan, Mr. G. C. Seers, Major W. F. Shirer arid Mrs. Shiref, Captain J. M. Twhigg and Mrs. Twhigg, Lieutenant J. Mackenzie tuid> Mrs., Mackenzie; Dr. and fits.. Pacey;Miss Jessie; Wktson; Mr. and Mrs; Donald Robertson, Dr. Sand Mrs. E. G; Gibbs, Captain C-r D- AiGeorge arid Mrs. George/ Dr. arid Mrs. J; B. Ewart, Major W. H. Bull and Mrs. Bull; Lieutenant J. ftedtriond, Mr. K. B. Hunter; Mr; Arthur Mr. arid Mrs." E. AdcTand' arid Miss Nancy Ackland, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. S. Morison; Captain A. J.'G. Htafori, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Gilmour, Mr. and Mrs, J. Kirkcaldie, Mr. and Mrs, E. J. CaStlS Mr. &. Scott, liieutenarit-Colonel Robert. Stout, Captain Douglas Brown, Mr.-attd Mrs. J, S. Hunter, Mf. Keith Bridge,. Mr. W. R. Selby.: Miss Peggy Rollett, and C.S.M. W. H. Buncken- : burg. ••»".' v /,. > Also present were Dr.- and Mrs. Hughe*. Steele, Mr. arid Krs. Wilfred Lelcester, Mr.'and Mts. jGrenfell; Mor- ' gan, Dr. and Mrs. J. Miss Margaret von.Dadelszen. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Reid, Miss Mollie Brown, Dr. and [Mrs. Kronfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald-Bradshaw, Dr. arid' Mrs. Rw Mackayi -Mr; J and Mrs. C. Qiiahfe,' Lieutenant G. Thbmas, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wiren,j Miss Joan Leary,-Major, and .A. V. Jensins, Mr. Dufl Daysh, Lieutenant and Mrs. I Wicksteed, Miss Joan Campbell, Pay-master-Lieutenant R. Buck, LieutenantfColoiiel aid Mrs. B. W Fpnton, Lieutenant B; •fitrgerald.'. Dr. JafiaeS >Maun- , sell, Mr. aud.Mrs. Hataflton J. H,;, Qiltaer, Lieutenant J; Redmond, Du», Mr. ina Mbi-J. Gambia MT/atad Mrs. Gray, Young, Miis Barbara Gray Young, Miw.Margaret Gibbs, Mas Catherine Young t :Mr. apd caldle," Grundy, Mr: and- Mrs, Bryon LieuMr, Q"?™* (ROwrua), Mr. and Mra..,J AcKldnd. | Mr. .and Mra. 6. Dennls. FligMCftpUb'' Lowci Dr* and Mrs* Hart*, FliKht-Lieutenant and, Rawnsley, Mr. and Mars. D. Rofelbsto; Barrett, Smith,'McPhee, Turner, Morf ton, Free, Phllpott, Bayl^y/Rowlands, Bernasconl Beadle; and •Messrs,' Torrence, , New'lands, 1 Boyle,' Pumfrey,' South, F. HaHe7 McCaul, and Scott ;