FANCY DRESS BALL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1935, Page 8

FANCY DRESS BALL

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS CHILDREN’S HAPPY GATHERING. PICTURESQUENESS OF SCENE. One of the happiest features of fee Hawera school diamond jubilee celebrations was the children’s fancy dress ball at fee winter show buildings on Saturday night for children attending the school. Nearly 500 children, garbed in a brilliant array of costumes, took part, and there were more than 100 parents and interested spectators watching fee proceedings. The grand march set the ball rolling and in fee parade fee splendour of fee costumes was shown to perfection. The long hall was admirably suited for the purpose and fee gayness of fee scene, with streamers of coloured lights adding to its picturesqueness, had to be seen to be believed.

The decorations for fee ball were the same as for the jubilee ball of fee previous night and they harmonised perfectly wife fee costumes. At supper time wife about some 280 children in fee room at the one time, jelly and fruit salad and cakes, scones, sandwiches and ofeer eatables in profusion, and the happy chatter of childhood, fee scene was even gayer and more picturesque than in fee ballroom.

Mrs. J. M. Collins was supervisor of the supper arrangements aided by Mesdames H. W. Swinbum, E. Bavin, R. H. Leece, A. Thompson, Misses' J. McCall and Mcßae and 16 volunteer waitresses. All fee supper was given by parents. In fee ballroom Mr. W. Barleyman was pianist and Mr. J. W. Thomas, headmaster, and members of his staff kept things moving. Polkas, schottisches and chain waltzes mingled wife modem dances. Among the children present in fancy costume were: Trevor Gollins (Golliwog), Alison Corrigan (Alice in Wonderland), Elsie Hartmann (Fairy), Joan Cressey (Flower Girl), Jean Cameron (Shepherdess), Nancy Crompton (Princess), Kathleen Garvey (Fairy), Nancy Linnell (Flower Girl), Major Purser (Dr. Shackbottle,) John Percy (Golfer), Colin Percy (All Black), Naomi Goldstone (White Mouse), Loma Pearce (Taranaki Daily News), Dorothy Pearce (Evening), Bruce Penniall (Cowboy), lan Henderson (Cricketer), Jim Yearbury (Golliwog), Bob Welton (Bridegroom), Maetel Overton (Victorian Lady), Marilyn Lovell (Good Luck), June Petersen (Victorian Lady), Hugh Crichton (Jockey), Keren. Pratt (Gipsy), Betty Bardsley (Gipsy), Thelma Trask (Fairy), Dawn Little (Snowdrop), Raewa Spragg (Flower Girl), Olive Warner (Green Girl), Joan Quin and Barbara Malone (Tweedledum and Tweedledee), Patrick. Quin (Cowboy), Barbara Trask (Powder Puff), Aloe Park (Japanese), Betty Clement (Alice Blue Gown), Elsbetti Bayliss (Gipsy), Barbara Robertson (Gipsy), Donald McCormack (Pirate), Marvis Cockerill (Blue Fairy), June Head (Old Fashioned Lady), Maurice Cockerill (Toy Soldier), Margaret Fincham (Evening,) Marie Frisk (Japanese Girl), Elsie Worrall (Irish Colleen), Merle Fairweather (Holly Fairy), Verena Fairweather (Fire Fairy), Pat Fredericks (Soldier), Lorraine’ Baker (Gipsy), Noeline Pitts (Hiker), Yvonne Pitts (Gipsy), Elva Pitts (“Hard Knut”), Marie Walsh (“First Girl to Attend Hawera School”), Stewart and Kathleen McLean (Jubilee Couple), Doreen Cawsey (“Kate Greenaway”), Bruce Hamilton (Dutch Boy), Brian Duggan (Cowboy), Bruce Wilts (Gipsy), Jetta Trotter (Pierrette), Noeline Lock (Pierrette), Shirley Walker (Maid in Waiting), Thelma Gosnell (Victorian Maid), Christina McLaren (Page), Josephine McLaren (Little Red Riding Hood), Mervyn Leece (Watteau), Dick Leece (Rajah), Torry Leece (Robin Hood), Boyce Williams (Tennis Player), Margaret Dufnll (College Student), Josie Smith (Dutch Giri), lan Cameron (Evening), Douglas Cameron (Robin Hood), Pamela Foster (Jockey), Carmel Goldstone (Chinese), lan Spavin (Pierrot), June Linton (Pierrette), David Brown (Jingle Bells), Betty Brown (Daisy), Nigel Dingle (Soldier), Betty Sage (Prince Charming), Peggy Bray (Gipsy), Ray Muir (Spanish Cavalier), June Caimey (Paint Box), June Whitton (Bo Peep), Margaret Stuart (Evening), Cynthia Little (Flames), Dawn Little (Jonquil), Lilian McNeil (Evening), Jennie Stuart (Evening), Elizabeth Campbell (Spanish Girl), Marion Bernard (Japanese GirD, Mervyn Hartmann (Elf), Peggy Clement (Gipsy,) Jocelyn Lovell (Robin Hood,) Harley Vivian (Dutch Boy), Connie Clemow (Russian Girl), Junne Petersen (Victorian Lady), Daphne Hollard (Madam Pompadour), Bessie Flinn (Bo Peep), Gwen Hannah (Buttercup), Joy Winks (“Anne of Green Gables”), Mana Irving (Irish Lassie), Clive Bayley (Cricketer), Yvonne Hayter (Daffodil), Margaret Hayter (Lolly), Trevor Little (Dawn), Margaret McArthur (Evening), Betty Croombe (Urchin), Muriel Oppenheim (Loma Doone), Cora Gribble and Marjorie Butchart (Chinese Twins), Avery Lander (Powder Puff), Gladys Purcell (No More Strike), Poppy Bloor (Sailor), Margaret Briggs (Evening), Shirley Walter (Shepherdess), Tui McMahon (Dancer), Pat Cosgrove (Irish Colleen), Jean Hughson (Japanese Maiden), Noreen Whitton (Highland Lassie), Alice Nowell (Clown), Margaret Buist (Jack Tar), Betty Glover (Midnight Fairy), Rita Mills (Evening), Owen Wills (Page Boy), Ferona Park (Japanese Giri), Cushla Wylds (Russian Girl), Mary Shaw (Evening), Pat Villars (Fairy), Irene King (Old Fashioned Lady), Iris Wells (Japanese Girl), Maureen Cosgrove (Yachting Girl), Rodney Langdon (Coster Girl), Eva Batcher (Military Uniform), Norma King (Irish Girl), Bruce Milne (Hungarian), Brian Dash (Airman), Barbara Trask (Powder Puff), Thelma Trask (Fairy), Frank Beaufort (Page Boy), Vera Gabbie (Bridesmaid), Veta Chapple (Eastern Princess), Ernie Kururangi (Dancer), Lola Davies (Cinderella), Joyce Milne “England, fee Land of the Free”), Nona Wilkinson (Rainbow), Joy Edgecombe (Prince), Joan Worsop (Knight), Jim Gabbie (Swagger), Leona Beaufort (Fairy), Eddie Yearbury (Dutch Boy), Jim Yearbury (Nigger Minstrel), Valerie Patterson (Bridesmaid), Barbara Goodchap (Bridesmaid), Gwen Archbold (Spanish Dancer), Esme Death (Early Victorian), Dorothy Lyons (Early Victorian), Harry Caplen (Chinese), Eva Stuart (Page Boy), Flossie Mead (Evening Dress), Nancy McDonald (Caprice), Molly Crutch (Rainbow Fairy), Myra Sagar (Beach Girl), Valda Baker (Page Girl), Lennie West (Red Indian), Florence Sharpe (Princess), Desmond Ellis (Gipsy), Douglas Foy (Red Indian), Merle Fairweather (Lolly Fairy), lan Chisholm (Old Man), Ken Thomas (Harlequin), Pauline Purser (Alice in Wonderland), Daphne Gane (Gipsy), Hector Gane (Golliwog), Relvyn Collins (Dutch Boy), Winley Collins (Old English Gentleman), Crenold Collins (Old English Lady), Mary Parker (Princess), Muriel Manning and Betty Archbold (Jack and Jill), Bruce Clarke (Chinese), Murray Findlater (Pirate), Bill Fyson (Tennis), Miriam Fyson (Red Riding Hood), Valda Fyson (Bunny), Pat Sanson (Kinky Kid), Barbara Corkill (Jewels), Gwen Hardley (Pierrette), Nola Cross (Pierrette), Helen Young (Pierrette), Janet Caselberg (Bridesmaid), Joyce Worrall (Military), Doris Veale (Tulip Fairy), John Veale (Rabbit), Colin Quin (Pirate), John Cairney (Pirate), Lindsay Holloway (Red Indian), Donald Rickard (Captain Hook), Molly Clarke (Maori), Narda Sorenson (French Pierrette), Barbara Gull (Rabbit), Colin Bayliss (Coster), Gerald Carter (Woman).