NAVY QUEEN ACTIVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 23723, 2 November 1940, Page 17

NAVY QUEEN ACTIVITIES

SUCCESSFUL BUFFET DINNER AND CALL

One of the most successful functions arranged to augment the funds of the Navy Queen was the buffet dinner and dance held on Thursday evening. The Early Settlors’ Hall presented a delightful scene with its shimmering, multicoloured streamers and well-laden tables, with effective low bowls of flowers, when the crowd of diners arrived. The Navy Ball Sub-committee, which was responsible for the evening, was headed by Mrs R. S. Black, who received the guests wearing an elegant model frock of white georgette, featuring a shoulder cape of the same material edged with heavy white beading. Among those noticed at the dinner were Lady Sidey (ruby velvet), Mr and Mrs F. S. A vent (floral frock), Mr and Mrs S. M'Pherson (Oriental satin frock, fur cape), Mr and Mrs J. Barnett (soft blue ninon frock with pink accessories) , Mr and Mrs H. E. Harford (black taffeta, with quilted coatee), Mr and Mrs I. Cantrell (black taffeta), Mr and Mrs Guy Tapley (hyacinth blue ninon with clover velvet straps), Mesdarnes D. Barton (black frock, with coatee of blue and petunia), _E. R. Harty (midnight blue beaded frock), Mrs M'lntyre (black satin with floral design), Commander Watson. R.N.R., and Mrs Watson, Mr and Mrs R. C. B. Greenslade, Mr and Mrs M. Myers, Mr and Mrs J. R. Patterson, Mr and Mrs J. Edmond, Dr and Mrs Roland Fulton, Mr and Mrs S. P. Cameron, Mr and M>rs J. H. Duncan, Mr and Mrs Donald Reid, Mr and Mrs John M‘Donald, Mr and Mrs Frank Halsted, Signor and Madame G. Stella, Mr and Mrs

Alan Gray, Mr and Mrs Maurice James. Mr and Mrs Phillips, Misnames Gerald .Fitzgerald, Lily Haggitt, iJnn .M'l tines (Tiinarn), C. S. Crawford, Miles. Gommittoe inenihers present were Misses i‘ • Iggo (carmine velvet), M. Hessian ■(striped lame), \V. Smith (floral lame), K. Groenslade (clover velvet frock and coatee), and the secretary, Miss Leslie Fraser (brown taffeta with cire stripes),' also Misses Margaret Kraus. Jocelyn Tapley, Crust, Hetty Hell, H. Ilnnnerstrnm, Ham and Hat Miles, Audrey Clarke, M. Tyrrell, Yvonne Dim, P. Hlackie, and Wyn Patterson, .Messrs Ernest Griffon, Fraser Edmond, P. Vallange, M‘Kay, Kevin Dun, H. Blair, J. 11. Barton, Ernest Watson, G. F. Chilee, Johns, G. Paape, A.Smith, and Flying-officer D. Groig. DANCE IN PIONEER HALL. Later in the evening these guests adjourned to the Pioneer Hall, where a truly nautical effect had been achieved by the use of mural paintings that completely covered all four walls. Along a deep blue sea sailed ships of the British Navy, while an occasional aeroplane hovered over the scene. Particularly effective was the realistic picture of the guns looming up behind the orchestra's platform, from which Dick Colvin and his band were ' playing. Flags draping the doorways and an immense canopy of fluttering blue streamersoverhead completed a most original and; appropriate decorative scheme. A constant reminder of the fact that the country is at war was given by the presence of so many khaki-clad dancers, mostly men from the Territorial camps at Wingatui and Forhury.

Arrival of Navy Queen. The arrival of the Navy Queen, Miss Jessie M'Lennan, who was accompanied by Second-lieutenant Alex. M'Dowell,

was the signal for an enthusiastic burst of applause. Miss M'Leiinan wore a c.iarmmg frock aml coatee of oli-wbite satin patterned in an unusual design in pale petunia ami green. She was received by Mrs Black and Mr H. C. Harford, who led her to the stage, to be introduced to members of the Ball Committee and Navy League Committee. Then followed a nautical ballet of tap dancers, given by the pupils of Miss Constance Potts’s School of Dancing. As a result of the untiring efforts of the committee a substantial sum should bo handed in to swell the funds of the Navy Queen. Guests. Among extra guests who arrived textile dance wore the Mayor and Mayoress •(Mr and Mrs A. H. Allen), the latter wearing a frock of peacock blue tinsel lame, AEr and Mrs J. Sutherland Ross (shot blue taffeta with floral coatee), Mr and Mrs J. S. Monro, Mr and Mrs Ferguson, Mr and Mrs David Smith, Mr and Mrs ML Day (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Graham Rutherford, Mr and Mrs Ken. Nicholls, Mr and Mrs Holden Mirams. Mr and Mrs Dunlop, Lieutenant and Mrs W. N. Wood. Lieutenant and Mrs F. S. Salinger, Flyingofficer and Mrs J. W. Nairn, Commander and Mrs Fraser, Lieutenantcommander and Mrs M‘Donald, Mesdames W. F. Edmond, T. M'Kibbin, Ralph Sleigh, Lionel Stephens, Dora Smeaton, John Seelyc, Misses Claire Stevenson, Cecile Jones, Judith Gallaway, -Marine' Ross, Bessio Wilson, Rona Wood, Nancy Duncan, Corta Gunn, Ailsa Lawson, Mary and Betty Reeves, B. Rhodes. Katharine Napier, Constance Potts, M. Donnelley, and Juries, Commander Welch, R.N.V.R., Second-lieutenant F. M. Bain, Secondlieutenant J. G. Hamilton, Messrs I. Bett, F. Goodwin, A. Paape, and D. Ross.