FIGHTING SERVICES' CLUB

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 February 1944, Page 4

FIGHTING SERVICES' CLUB

airmen Take a turn The tables were turned at the Fighting Services’ Club on Saturday when a group of about 15 airmen took over the duties ol the hostesses and prepared, cooked and served tea and supper Tea became quite a party, the boys bedecking themselves in frilly coloured aprons and caps of crepe paper and flourishing their trays in father dangerous attempts at a Waiter’s professional aplomb _ Their task was a busy one, about 150 people being served, but the meal was over and all the aftermath of dishwashing and sweeping completed in good time.

. The dance which followed m the evening was also organised by the same group of airmen, who will be leaving Nelson shortly and chose this practical way of expressing their appreciation of the hospitality accorded them at the club. A group of Air Force players provided an excellent musical programme. with piaho violin, two saxot2,A n A 8 £? d drums A lor Se number of w.a.a.Ks. servicemen and their partne!/Lsp:’nt a vorv enjoyable evening About 150 members of the forces «,^ e r S n rVed j r th Su ''day tea and this " bowed by a sing song around the o‘ano and later by informal dancing Members of the Toe H League of Women Helpers assisted with the lunarrangements on Sunday when about 0° men wore served with a meal. '™ >rl received for tire weekend included pears, plums apples and pumpkin sent from Tasman, a quarter lorn one ,n m u Mapua resident find PUni .'•ufumbers. beans. tomatoes, donor- m b " CO " ' velp by other taTwenL respo ? sr tn ,hr ’ appeal.made '' number of table-doths were mHen O the club, but more are ‘dill rewhim ? cloths or material, white or coloured sitable for Use as received with