UNEMPLOYMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22787, 24 January 1936, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

SOCIAL EVENING A successful and well-attended social evening, convened fey the N.U.W.M., was held in the Early Settlers' Hall this week, Cr Mark Silverstone presiding. Prior to the start of the entertainment Cr Silverstone made feeling reference to the passing of King George V, and said that it was- only fitting that he should comment on what had been the most momentous period during these last 140 years. The reign had been the most outstanding in modern history. To her Majesty as a mother and wife he offered deepest sympathy and his best wishes for a successful reign to King Edward VIII. Piper Kenneth Cameron, Dominion president of the Piping and Dancing Association of New Zealand, played the lament " Fareweel tae Lochaber," while the large audience remained standing. Tlie programme opened with a tableau of dancers arranged in the costumes of the British Isles, and Piper Cameron rendered a pipe tune, " The _ Boad to _ the Isles." The sailor's hornpipe was given by the Misses D. Baxter. M. Harrison, Margie Baxter and Master Jim Flett. Miss Jean M'Gregor, Mosgiel, was well received in her two songs, "The Star o' Rabbie Burns" and "My Ain Folk." The Irish reel was danced by the hornpipe dancers. Two musical monologues were given by Miss Nell Warren—" The Pipes o' Troon" and " Ooh Her." A reel o' Tulloch was skilfully performed by Misses J. MacMillan, R. Garland, B. Brown and M. Harris, and the Irish jig was given by A. Ramsay, B. Brown and Master Flett. A waltz clog was given by Misses Daphne Allan and Margaret MacMillan. The Jollity Boys Band rendered two numbers, for which they merited much applause, and a combined Highland fling terminated the- first part of the programme, which was supplied by the Piping and Dancing Association. The piper for the dances wa6 Mr Angus MacMijla,n and Miss Matheson was an efficient accompanist.

St. Andrew's Society of Otago supplied the second portion of the programme, and a sketch entitled " The Village Blacksmith " was cleverly performed, the following taking part:—Mesdames M'Curdy and Dagger, Messrs W. Oudney, R. Dagger and J. Jeffrey. The songs " Angus MacDonald " and " Gala Water" were sung by Miss Mary Somerville, and a recitation. " The Rat and the Mouse," was given by Mrs Dagger. Humorous numbers —" Bonnie Wee Hoose " and " There's a Bonnie Wee Lassie " —were given by Mr Harry Bell (Abbotsford).