RIVERLEA DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1933, Page 4

RIVERLEA DISTRICT NEWS

SUCCESS OF FANCY DRESS BALL. One of the most successful functions at Riverlea was a plain and fancy dress ball held in the hall last week. There were about 200 people present. There was a splendid display of fancy costumes. Jack Hooker’s orchestra supplied the music. The hall and the sup-per-room were tastefully decorated. The supper was supplied by local ladies. There was a euchre tournament for nondancers, the prizes going to Miss Rutherford and Mr. Otten. The Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss L. James and Mr. L. Drury and the statue dance by Miss Symes and Mr. L. Purvis. Extras were played by Misses Hey and Lilley and Mr. W. ■ Coxhead. Those in fancy costume were Mesdames J. A. Malone (Carnival), H. R. Harre (Gipsy), W. Hodgson (Rajah’s Dancing Girl), E. Mills (Pierrette), J. Gibson (Pompadour), J. Kenyon (Grandma), Misses J. Keightley (Egyptian Dancing Girl), E. Tippens (Pirate), A. Scott (Gipsy Queen), N. Josephson (George IV. Period Man), L. Josephson (George IV. Period Lady), G. Harkness (Gipsy), M. O’Neil (Black and White), G. Hughes (Old-time), M. Winter, Inglewood (Good Luck), P. Grey (Burglar), E. Hey (Community Singing), R. Hughes (Japanese), G. Gargan (Gipsy), Lyndon (Old-time), F. Dew and Rutherford (Nigger Twins), A. Lyndon (Gipsy), F. Whitcombe (Arabian Princess), M. Symes (Pierrette), J. Southern (Buy British Goods), L. Lovell (Pirate), Messrs Jack Hooker (Bun Hat Ike), Brick Birkett (Mexican Rose), Bill Gower (Unprofessional Musician), H. R. Harre (Gipsy), J. Carey (Carnival), H. Hooper (Grandpa), J. Gibson (Nigger), E. Mills (Pierrot), W. Hughes 'Tin Soldier), J. Hey (Russian Peasant), D. Hughes (Lawrence in Arabia), W. Dormer (Ku Klux Klan), R. Leonard (Nigger), W. Cuff (Jockey).

School Committee Meeting. A school committee meeting was- held on Tuesday. Mr. Voullaire reported all the hedges had been trimmed and the terrace • under construction below the girls’ basketball ground had been finished. It was decided to leave the matter of the tiny tots’ playing field to the

chairman and the teacher, who are .to. look over the fixtures in children s playing areas at some of the neighbouring schools and decide what to erect and to find out the cost. The trees on the west of the teacher’s residence are to be felled as soon as can be arranged . .