SCHOOL BALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 8

SCHOOL BALL

TE KARAKA SUCCESS MANY PRETTY COSTUMES The Te Karaku School held its annual ball in the Waikohu Hall on Friday evening. The pupils presented dance and song items for the entertainment of the parents, and these, executed in fancy costumes, presented a gay and colorful scene. Under "the direction of the headmaster, Mr. F, Cook, and Misses O’Hara Smith, Hueston and Gibson, the pupils held the floor until 10.30 p.m., when after a delightful supper, prepared by the ladies of the district, they retired to give place to the adult dancers. Tlie- following fancy costumes were in evidence:—

Primers.—Louisa Jones (noon), Janie Tuapawa (bride), Rona Bell (Jingle Bells), Shirley Barr (hillside farm), Ruth Jackson (rosebud), Thelma Nisbett (flower girl), Leone Atkins (Mickey Mouse), Joyce Clayton (strawberry), Margaret Graham. (Dutch girl), Murray Burgess (cowboy), Trevor McDermott (wounded soldier), Bertie Taylor (Mexican cowboy), Douglas Brown (Indian), Edward Tuapawa (swagger), Alister Hobbs (swagger). Charlie Tuapawa (bridegroom), Maui Moore (Maori chief), and Frank Single (sailor). Std. I boys,—Stanley Clayden (Red| Indian), Henry Graham (policeman), Lyil Denton (swagger), Lenriard Halt (soldier), Pat Earnshaw (captain), Billy Rougher (clown), Don Nicholson (Indian, boy), Billy Kingi (Mexican cowboy), Nome Mills (Indian chief), Desmond O’Grady (tennis player). Std. T'l girls.—Shirley Ivirnber (daffodil), Maureen Brown (Chinese girl), Joy Clayden (Spanish dancer), Alma Gold-, smith (nurse), Velina Jolley (brown elf), Nora Jones (nigger girl), Mavis Manuel (queen), and Audrey Mills (gipsy). ‘Std. 11l girls.—Merle Atkins (tambou-, line girl), Raey Burgess (peasant), tWivq Clayden (pied piper), Gladys Jones (workbasket), Ruth McKenzie (Japancsq girl), Margaret Dunshea (spring), Lola, Karauroa (Chinese' girl), Ethel Tuapawa (evening girl), Molly Bell (circus girl), Lesley Cook (Queen of the Fairies), Hugh Rougher (jockey), and Jim Mcv Dermott (organ grinder). i Std. IV.—Eva Bell (Scotch girl), Jocelyn Burgess (folly), Shirley Doran (athletic), Vida Dunshea (spring), Betty Gordon (•evening girl), Megan Hall (fairy), Reta .Tones (night), Ethel Lennane (Japanese), Edna Manuel (flower girl), Betty McKenzie (’pierrette), Arnold Askew, Arthur Clayden, Percy Clayden, and Jim Graham (Firemen), Leslie Kimber (eowboy), Sydney Rutone (baker), Bobby Stephenson (Mexican), Geoffrey Tait (Robin Hood), Robert Pitcher (cowboy), and Brownie .Tones (tennis player), Std. VI. —Maurice Fisher (beach boy), Joan Fisher (beach girl), Marcia Dunshea (summer), Rita McCauley (beach girl), Beryl Smithors (early Victorian), William Lennane (clown), Jim Stephenson (Scottish chieftain), Ray Jones (tennis player), William Dunshea (pirate), Bert Burgess (highwayman), Edna Castles (nurse), Nolene Castles (Japanese), Joy Castles (beach g* rl )- ■