OHANGAI.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 3

OHANGAI.

(From a Correspondent.)

PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS BALL. The plain and fancy dress ball organised by the young ladies of the district was held in the hall on Wednesday last, and was a huge success. The night- was fine, and the young people were present from all round the district. There were about 80 couples present, a big percentage being in fancy dress. The music was supplied by Mr Coburn. Proceedings opened with a grand march, the fancy dresses making a. very bright effect. Dancing was kept up till a late hour. A special feature of the ball was the splendid supper provided. Mr P. Sheahan donated prizes for best fancy dress. Mesdames Fralim, Sangster and Miss Cfuppy acted as judges, and awarded first prize for ladies to Miss Gibbins, Hawera, and for men to Mr Goile, Ohangai. Appended is the list of fancy dresses : —Misses Win Garrett, table tennis; Wells, Dutch Girl; Walker, sunflower ; Macmillan, land girl; Radford, Weldon’s iashions; Dyson, good luck; Harris, spinning top; Lander, Weldon’s crochet; Gibbings, lady of the harem; Clark, Rod Cross nurse; Savage, rose; Reid, Timaru flour mills; Kerrisk, old maid; M. Garrett, “Yes, we have no bananas”; Keenan, Spanish dancer; Rosewarne (house that Jack built; Takare, Maori maid* Mesdames Townsend, ruination; Goile, Red Cross nurse; Kerrisk, powder and patches; Litchwark, Topsy; Trilford. Three Castle cigarettes; Bailey, toreador; Baker, good luck; Walker, fortuneteller ; Harrison, Ivy; Duff, Egyptian dancer.; Eden, winter. Messrs Litchwark, Sambo; \Y, Garrett, clown; Rosewarne, fireman; Bailey, jockey; H. Townsend, Indian chief; Amos, Arizona, cowboy; S. Kerrisk. jester; Slater, the village idiot; Goile, Rastus; Trilford, jockey; A. Townsend, clown; G. Kerrisk, Mexican cowboy. ROOT CROPS.

The agricultural officers of the Education Department were in this district on Wednesday weighing and judging the root crops in the schools competitions. 1 understand one of the mangold crops yielded over ninety tons per acre, which must be considered very good, taking into account the very indifferent season we have experienced so far as root crops are concerned. This district has won first prize on more than one occasion for mangolds at the Winter Show, and, no doubt wilL be well represented in this class at the forthcoming exhibition.

A hardy Scots sheepman, more famous for his industry than his sentiment, was once heard to remark : “It’s worth £d of any man’s money to hear those birds sing.” He referred to the New Zealand bellbird, of which Captain Cook in his narrative wrote; “The ship lay at anchor at- a distance of somewhat less than a quarter of a mile from the shore, and in the morning we we re awakened by the singing ol' the birds—the number was incredible —and they seemed to stiaiu their throats in emulation of each other. This'wild melody was infinitely superior to anything that we have ever heard of the same kind. It seemed to lie like small bells most exquisitely timed.”