GRAMMAR SCHOOL BALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17246, 23 August 1919, Page 11

GRAMMAR SCHOOL BALL.

] ' A BRILLIANT FUMCTION? [ CELEBRATIONS GAILY ENDEL\ The jubilee celebrations of the Auek- - land Grammar School': were terminated 3 last evening, when a ball was held in the ■ * school. About 300 couples were 1 present. '* 1 and' the function, partly because -of" its ' novelty,*. 1 but '■ principally on 3 the excellent organisation,.".of . Boys* Association, was' .generally' s sidered to be one of the. most successful of its kind held in Auckland this, season. p The great assembly hall was the p'rin--0 cipal dancings floor, but.-the ; flanking doors 1 on three sides were thrown open and many j couples took advantage of the; passages, . 7 and odd groups could be seen dancing in the galleries. Here easy chairs and tables I were set for the benefit of card players. »' Chairs were also placed on the upper gallery and out on the roofless balconies, where in the intervals between the dances happy parties promenaded for. a . moment 5 before returning to the heated ballroom i | below. ~;., ; _ T Viewed from, the galleries ' the .dancing ' floor presented a brilliant scene.- The platj. _ form at one end-was decorated with ; palms, „ 3 daffodils and ' blue irises, 'the-school, col- £ ours. The deep brown colour of the oak r 8 1 doorways and the white of the -. plaster -, walls above- formed a most striking backB ground for the countless' frocks in every 9 conceivable hue. .", '~,,' ' * - Supper, prepared by the old girls of "the school, was laid at tables in a large mar;- * quee adjoining the rear of the building. ' * The school colours were again utilised in i the table decorations, ( ' and ..there '<'' wis. a liberal display of greenery and bunting. . There was also a buffet on' the first, floor. * The dancing-floor was in excellent;,con^ dition, and encores were the order of 1 the evening. . " Extras" without number were demanded, and,, dancing , was : , cbh- , tinued until two o'clock' in the morning;'. a . ■ . ■..«,,> . ■... .•