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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 4, 6 January 1941, Page 3

Entertainments The various committees promoting entertainments in support of their selected candidates iu the queen carnival are taking full advantage of the holiday season at the beach. A wellpatronised dance was held in the hall during the week in support of the citizen’s queen, Aliss Joyce Parlitt, and resulted in a substantial credit. Air. Neville supplied the music, and the secretary, Air. F. Gay, and an energetic committee worked hard to make the function a success. Novelty dances were won as follows:—Mystery train, Aliss N. Packer and Air. B. Short; Alonte Carlo, Aliss E. Oliver and Air. S. Ellwood. The following night Air. and Airs. Kelvin Dando organised an open-air concert and community sing in support of the same queen. The night was mild and the performance, which attracted a large crowd, was held on the beach. Credit is due to Air. Tui Carter, who appeared with a concert party styling themselves the Alaori Glee (Singers, and the various items were roundly applauded. Miss Sara Waaka and Alessrs. l'a.ul Hakaraia, Weal, Peni and Taylor rendered musical and vocal numbers, Tui Carter was heard in song and story, and the entire company pre sented action songs and hulas. A collection amongst the bystanders realised over £4 —well over 300 votes for the citizens’ queen. Air. and Airs. Dando entertained the visitors to refreshments at the conclusion of the concert, and intimated that they would organise other functions of the kind in support, of the various queens. The Surf and Life-saving Club’s dance on New Year’s Eve was a financial and social success and was continued until the early hours of New

Year ’s Day. Miss AT. Altree and Air. Hook were winners of tlie Alonte Carlo and Miss Topp and Air. P. Aladdcn the Lucky Gay Gordons. Goodbye 1940! Never before have visitors and residents of Foxton Beach shown less willingness to retire than when they gathered at different points in small and large parties to speed out 1940 and to welcome the # New Year with high hopes and good resolutions. Early in the evening a large crowd gathered in (Seabury Avenue, where Air. Jay had installed a microphone and loudspeaker, and where vocal and instrumental talent was culled from amongst the bystanders, with Billy Neville to announce the various items. Later an adjournment was made to the hall camp-site, where community singing, interspersed with solos, passed the time pleasantly until close on midnight., the accompanist on the piauo-accordeon being Air. At. Wishnowski. Campers at tlie point gathered round a huge bonfire, and here, as in other places, “AuJd Lang Syne” was sung lustily as strangers and frieuds alike joined hands in time-lionoured fashion. * * First-footers” did the rounds until the early hours and strolling groups of singers, added to the general jollification. It was almost daylight before quietude reigned once more.