A SPECTACULAR BALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 18

A SPECTACULAR BALL

MEDICAL CORPS ENTERTAIN

The annual ball of the Second Field Ambulance, New Zealand Medical Corps, was held last night at the St. Francis Hall, and a vividly colourful scene was presented by the regimental and air force uniforms of the men and the beautiful-frocks of the ladies.-The ballroom was hung with regimental and signalling flags, and, radiating from a centre coloured lantern, were streamers of the regimental colours, maroon, blue, and gold. Palms, ornamental shrubs, and hydrangeas were massed on the stage and stairs, also in the comfortably furnished lounge upstairs. •

The guests were received by the Commanding Officer,*. LieutenantColonel Montgomery Spencer, E.D., N.Z.M.C, and Mrs. Montgomery Spencer, who was wearing a golden bronze shot taffeta gown.

On the supper tables were tall vases and baskets of red roses and ferns, and seated at the official table with Lieu-tenant-Colonel and Mrs. Spencer were the Director of Medical Services, Colonel F. E. Bowerbank, also Lieu-tenant-Colonel I. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, Group-Captain Isitt, Group-Cap-tain H. W. S. Saunders, and Mrs. Saunders, Captain Kemp and Miss Kemp, Lieutenant-Colonel Con way and Mrs. Con way, Major Tennent and Mrs. Tennent,' Captain and Mrs. Agar, Major Andrew, Lieutenant-Colonel Stout, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fenton and Mrs. Fenton..

The following comprised the com-, mittee: —Major Alan Tennent (chairman), Lieutenant Elliott, LieutenantQuartermaster J. Guy Oliver, Warrant Officer Bunckenburg (secretary), and Sergeant J. R. Barrett.

Among those who accepted invitations were Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. I. R. Crump, Major and Mrs. W. H. B. Bull, Major and Mrs. H. Jenkins, Major and Mrs. C. D. A. George, Major and Mrs. Twhigg, Captain and Mrs. C. H. Heal, Captain and Mrs. G. S. Agar, Major and Mrs. Shirer, LieutenantColonel and .Mrs. I. Wilson (Palmerston North), Captain and Mrs. Hartley Ainslie, Captain and Mrs. J. Mercer, Captain A. Maciver, Captain and Mrs. S. Porter, Captain and Mrs. W. G. Patterson, Dr. and Mrs. Nash, Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Harding, Mr: and Mrs. R. C. Buxton, Lieutenant and Mrs. J. C. Macintosh. Dr. and Mrs. Noel Manthel, Dr. and Mrs. F. Bolt, Mr. and Mrs. Grenfell Morgan, Lieutenant and Mrs. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Stipek, Dr. and Mrs. Louis Cohen, Mr. and' Mrs. MeMillen, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton J. H. Gilmer, Dr. and Mrs. J. Zohrab, Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, Dr. arid Mrs. H. K. Pacey, Mr. and Mrs. ■> D. Hammond, Lieutenant D. Curtis, Lieutenant Wilkinson, Lieutenant A. R. Eitchett, Mr. and Mrs. K. Underwood, Mr. T. F. Varley, Captain and Mrs. Sutcliffe, Mr. Keith Bridge,.Mr. K. B. Hunter, Lieuitenant J..K. Elliott, Captain and Mrs. Batten, Lieutenant and" Mrs. Wadie, Captain and Mrs. Finlayson, Dr. and Mrs. Treahy, Mr. and Mrs. C. Pope, Dr.; and Mrs. Button; Misses Helen Miller! Margot Peacock, Sheila Horan, Catherine Young, Jan Sloman, J. Brown, Jessie Watson, Be^ty Hayme, Nancie Craighead, Nola Renment, T. Larnach, A. Dunn, E. Baddiley, J. Havill, I. Wright, N. Smith, B. Gray Young, Paton, Mollie Brown; Lieutenant M. Williams, Sergeant Thompson, Sergeant Baddiley, Messrs. Gray Young, Kean, Harrison, G. Shaw, W. Olphert, and K. S. Hunter.

The object of the blue-bag is not to conceal defects in washing, but to give well-washed 'linen a suggestion of pure whiteness and remove the creamy look. As blue does not dissolve well in hard water, it-is always better to mix it first in a small quantity of soft water.