QUEENSTOWN NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9

QUEENSTOWN NOTES

SCHOOLS BREAK DP. This year the usual concert was not given by the pupils of the public school. Instead a children’s fancy dress dance was held in the Garrison Hall on Wednesday evening, there being close on 130 children present in fancy costume. The hall was gaily decorated with bright coloured festoons, flowers, and greenery, and the music for the dancing was played by Miss Elsie Fraser. Prior to the dance the children had been trained in the various steps by Misses Evie Clarke and Elsie Fraser, and it was a charming sight to watch the little ones performing the different dances. The costumes worn were many and varied, some grotgpque, somejdainty, some brilliant, and others riiost original. The grand march, led off by two tiny tots, was a spectacular sight. At 10 o’clock the tiny tots, tired after their rollicking fun, and satisfied with their “ night out,” were given supper, and the floor cleared for adults. On Friday the children were given a treat in the shape of a picnic to Bob’s Covo on the launch Muratai 11. CONVENT SCHOOL. The break-up and distribution of prizes took place in the schoolroom on Friday evening, there being present a large number of. parents and friends. An excellent programme of musical, elocutionary, and vocal items was given by the pupils, and the prizes presented by Father Marlow. CARNIVAL AT CHRISTMAS. A carnival, to be run on the same lines as those of previous years, has been arranged for Christmas week. An energetic committee has the arrangements well in hand, and the function promises to bo highly successful.—Own correspondent.