COMING-OF-AGE DANCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19551, 5 February 1938, Page 10

COMING-OF-AGE DANCE

PATUTAHI FUNCTION ANIMATED SCENE (Herald Correspondent.) The Patutahi Hall presented an animated scene last night, when friends of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Monckton, Ngatapa, were invited to a jolly dance in honour of their son, Christopher, who was celebrating his twenty-first birthday. The hall was artistically decorated witli pink and blue hydrangeas, tree ferns and palms, and the dance music was supplied by Mr. Bruce Chrisp’s orchestra. A dainty savoury supper was served from tables decorated with bowls of mixed blooms.

, Mrs. E. M. Monckton received the guests wearing an attractive frock of brown and cream lace with brown velvet trimmings.

Miss Ruth Monckton, sister of the guest of honour, wore a frock of floral crepe-de-chine, with a pink sash.

Miss Phillipa ’Monckton, another sister, chose a dainty frock of blue, pink-spot muslin.

Add Coming of Age—? au —? ? Amongst those present were:—Mesdames H. B. Williams, J. Blair, J. Dobson, S. D. Nathan. G. I. Parker, E, E. Brown, C. G. Holdsworth. F. E. Humphries, J. C. N. Thomas, F. B. Barker. G. Kells. W. A. Dods, J. Gardner. G. Reeves, Nolan. J. G. Nolan, J. R. Murphy, R. Sherratt, J. Broad, J. W. Williams. T. H. Sherratt. C. Faulkner, C. H. Williams, R. S. T. Sherratt, M. Faulkner, J. Bellerby, H. Cave, H. Drummond, M. Dobson, G. N. Dodgshun, D. C. S. Hain. B. J. Holdsworth, and J. B. Williams. Misses K. Sherratt, C. Burke, J. Sherratt, A. and E. Gillingham, M. Sherratt, M. Smith, C. Murphy, B. Gambrill, S. Barton, B. McKenzie, N. Mitford, M. Murphy, J. Thomas, V. Dodd, H. Thompson, M. Blair, C. Wilson, E. Barker, J. Blair, L. Miles, S. Ormerod, B. Dobson, N. Gillies, N. Brown, N. Newdick, B. Hutchinson, S. Dodd, C. Dymock, B. Dowding, J. Seymour, S. Williams, E. Matthews, and J. Scott.