BIRKENHEAD CARNIVAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 12

BIRKENHEAD CARNIVAL

♦ , To r V liise , funds for the improvement of j fne school grounds a carnival was held ion Saturday afternoon at Birkenhead It ! \' as "rsf Proposed that the three candiAuckla nd Suburbs seat the U cnr nl va / llonour of opening Skeates. however. officiated, and E 's.«Ud that each candidate preferred one ballot and that on Dednesdav. Each candidate spoke for about three minutes. | Ihe stalls and various competitions • held inside the school buildings, i was carried out by Mr. and Mrs. i r»- , Skeates. Mayor and Mayoress of I Birkenhead. and Airs. J Gardiner •\T I , I -!”^ r -^ Han : is H n - Mrs C. M. Burton! Mis. AI. Campbell, and Dr. Glad vs Montgomery. The prize-winners were: Tiny tots, one to five Best-dressed boy. Desmond Pennell: best-dressed girl. Elaine Kelly; most original. Joyce Harkin 1. Mervlvn Chappell 2: paper dress. Ivy Brown and Shirley Murphy 1. Five —ten years: Best-dressed child. Ivirk Loggie 1. Florence Mahonev °- poster. Clifford Fitzgerald (Champion Flour) 1. Joan Farrington (Safetv Matches) 2: best paper dress. Ronald I>avis (Bumble Bee) 1. Tudor Roebink (Cupid) 2: most original. Bobby Dunn (Father Christmas) 1, Joyce Paltridge (Indian Girl) 2. Best home-made dress. Naomi Adamson (Irish Colleen) 1. Baby show, under six months: Peter Anderson Roger. 1 : over six months. Bona West 1. Robert Morrison 2; best decorated pram. Millicent Pugh 1. Hilda Brooker 2. E. Pugh h.c. Decorted trolly. Reg. Verran 1. Meryn Chappell 2. Music was supplied by the Birkenhead Band. A demonstration was given by the North cote Fire Brigade, under Captain W. P. Roberts, in a “Wet and Dry” event. The Mayor of Northcote, Mr. A. E. Groenslade. was the winner of the men’s beauty competition