TARANAKI RIFLES' BALL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12865, 25 May 1905, Page 5

TARANAKI RIFLES' BALL.

The Drill Hall present dd 1 a ivory very pretty appearance on Wddnedfday. cvt«ii?ig on the occasion of the Taranati Rifles' antaual siocial. T?hei (docorationy were very tastefully caiT'iefcl vat with Hags, fern.s, etc., a thawing room also being taStefulJy. arrtolngeid for damcers. Hhere was a large attendance including' Sir JostjjpJi Wiarjd, Drs. a'ird Valratiae, the Mayor anfd Mayoress, 'Mr E. (XI. Stt&th, M.H.R., reiiresc'ntativcs from many country corps, and tlie following/ officers :— Colonel Ellis, LieUt.- Colonel Okey, Major Malone, Adjutant. Western. Ciitptahis Okey a«d /Mills-. A long {M'ogramme went witii a swing, thanks very m-imh to the I.'sC-'Aid-•Jutant West on, Privates A.«ERun|jihries aitd J. Tippins ancl Mr *E. L. HimvpJhries'— who earned out -the Buties most successfully, ax»d to Dhe erscelleut orfusic auiijjHob: by 'My D. BEcJKmnon Batons oi'dhostra. The slupper arraagemenits were also g-ooid, beaaig "m t-he cajiable hands of Mesfclames G. Cook, F. W. Okey, Daclkrill, QlbClelaud, F. E. Clarice, E. M. Siwtii, Ofllriscoll, Josw^h, H. Bisfeop,- and Ellis, blisses Humphries, 'Hesmfpbon, I. Cook, B. Clarke, Hopfcinsom anjd Da^y. For non-«da?nc<ns rooms wesre seti apart where "pit" avid other g^mes were play&l. Dancing was {k^pt up to an early hour, all /presenit voting the danfco one of the m/ost successful yet held. The hall decorations were superinteoSdcd by Q.-M.-C£«ptam Coclk, and the -secretarial duties iwere in. -t/he capable han#.-< of Mr Ernest Clarke, the general committee coiriprising- .• Q.-M.-Captain Cock, Sergeant E. Lister, Corporals Roberts anjd Duller, Privates H. Cofck, Black, Feefe, (McKeown, Tipinn-s, Tifflet, an<l Wfeitcombe.