"PEARLIE" ACTIVITIES IN INVERCARGILL

Evening Star, Issue 21147, 6 July 1932, Page 11

"PEARLIE" ACTIVITIES IN INVERCARGILL

All social activities for the past %veek in tho southern city centred in the Victoria Hall, where tho Flunket Society hold a Coster Fair. The extraordinary fine organisation behind this effort has been amply vindicated by the wide interest it has created and the crowds literally packing the Victoria Hall. Both m quantity and variety the goods sold have been astounding, and many of the donors have used not a little ingenuity in their planning, The appearance of the hall exceeded the preliminary rumours attached to the novel stalls, and it was a happy thought that prompted the decorators to have broad Hat streamers of orange and bright brown paper across the ceiling. These and the numerous coloured lights leading up to the hall created a luminous glow that set: the keynote of the fair, and this was at no stage lost. The marvellous “ creations ” worn by the stall-holders and their assistants were a sheer joy to the beholders, and the good humour they produced must have had an extremely gratifying effect in the loosening of many purse-strings. The fair was rich in entertainment, and, in addition, short programmes were given each evening to the crowded hall. Business was brisk throughout the fair, and there was no evidence that money is scarce when attractive wares are offered. On Saturday a-huge “ Coster Ball ” was held in Smith’s Hall, which was crowded with merrymakers, this being preceded by two dinner parties ■of twenty-four in the Grand Hotel, arranged by Miss L. F. Watson—a- larger one comprising over fifty diners in the Federal Banquet Hall, arranged by Miss Kitty Hazlett.