CALEDONIAN SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 4

CALEDONIAN SOCIETY

The monthly ingleside of the Wellington Caledonian Society .was held on Saturday evening. Old-time and Scots dancing was indulged in on an excellent floor, Mr. A. B. McWhinnia acting as M.C. .A programme of item* v. was interspersed between dances. Miss Flora Mackenzie sang "Bonnie Briar," and Mr. Trim sang "My Am Folk" and "There's a Land." Misses Leah Kerr and Nancy Macdonald danced the ' double swords and Highland fling, Miss Joan Kerr did the Irish jig, Miss Georgina Thomas a" tap dance, arid Miss Audrey Cuthbert a skipping dance. Mr. Lawson Barry and Mr. F. A. Bailey presented a humorous sketch, and the Pipe Band furnished several selections, "Hot Punch," "Miss Drummond of Perth," Mrs. McLeod of Raasay," and "The Athol Highlanders." Mrs. McGowan and Miss Mackenzie were accompanists, and Pipe-Major Stewart and Piper C. Balfour furnished the music for the Scots dancing. The next gathering will be the celebration of Hallowe'en. .

The New Zealand Railways road services and Eastbourne. Municipal omnibus .services advertise in .this issue their usual convenient omnibus services to and from Hutt Park on the occasion of. the Wellington Trotting Club's meeting. Buses returning from the meeting will depart from Randwick Road, not the main entrance gates. •' .:■■■■■■-■[-.■:■ ■ ;.'

When he slipped and fell in Man* ners Street late last night, G. Hedley, a gardener, of Dannevirke, suffered a fracture to his nose and shock. The Free Ambulance took him to hospital.