RAUMAI SCHOOL BALL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7018, 18 September 1929, Page 11

RAUMAI SCHOOL BALL

From Our Own Correspondent. Transformed into a fairyland of colour and lights, the Raumai hall on Friday night presented a moving kaleideseope of gaily dressed little figures.- There were swash-buckling pirates and charming little pierettes, be-fcathered Indians and dusky South Sea maids, columbines and harlequins, and hosts more of the little story-book people who invariably attend a fancy dress ball. There were boys and girls of all ages, dressed in all colours and an infinite variety of ways, so obviously enjoying themselves that they quite outshone the gaiety of their dresses. It was the annual fancy dress carnival of the Raumai school, ,an ovent eagerly awaited by the boys and girls, but equally by the parents. Year by year, the school’s annual ball has grown in popularity until, on Friday evening, ono glimpse of the crowded hall showed a scene of colourful animation seldom equalled in this district. An onlooker could not but bp struck by the infinite trouble that had been taken in the making of the costumes. The parents as well as the children, had obviously worked hard to attain the brilliant effect of the evening. Supper was dispensed in tho supper room, which was beautifully decorated in gold, green and orange. The greatest credit is due to Mrs. Thomas for the very evident pains she had taken in coaching the children for their dancing, also to Mr. R. McDonald and the members of tho school committeo, who organised the function. At ten o’clock, the floor was taken over by tho adults, and 1 dancing was kept up until an early hour, good music being provided by Dawson’s orchestra. A children’s “Monte Carlo” foxtrot was won by Anno Harland and Jim Rowbotham. Among the children present were.-* - Sheila McDonald, Japanese parasol; Janet Howell, Early Victorian; Alex McDonald, BobiD Hood; John Eowbotham, coster; Jim O ’Bourke, Mexican; Jack Howell, sun-ray; Jack Youle, Kerrigan, snow-ball; Ngaerc Klink, Irish colleen; Kona Klink, ballet dancer; Margaret Alexander, Spanish orange seller; Paulino McDonald, superstition; Nancy MoDonald, queen of hearts; Betty Blixt, fairy; Victor Montgomery, admiral; Brian O’Neill, Pickwick; Mavis Youle, superstition; Muriel Smart, pierette; Lorna Thomas, grandmother; Joan Wood, pansy; Maisie Wood, pirato girl; Jcanetto Spelman, Hawaiian girl; Kevin Balmor, Red Indian; Clarence Healey, gipsy; Jim Rowbotham, Red Indian; Eric Youle, parcel post; Annie Harland, good-luck; Audrey Brown, queen of diamonds; Margaret Bristowe, Old Mother Goose; Ireno Waedrofe, queen of diamonds; Louis Healy, tambourine; Kathleen O’Neill, Victorian Lady; Sally O’Rourke, orange-seller; Josephine Balmer, Robin Red Breast; Molly Lcamv, Spring; Arthur Brown, Dutch boy; Flora Stubbinglon, teapot; Beth Stubbington, Irish colleen; Jim Cheyne, jester; Teddy Cheyne, Little Boy Blue; Colin Caldwell, tennis . player; Dons Montgomery, picture-book; Mabel Milne, flower; Iris Montgomery, Indian squaw; Nina Haville, flower girl, Audrey Haville, dingle-bells.