CONCERT AT ORTON.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15503, 13 November 1914, Page 8

CONCERT AT ORTON.

FOR BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. One of the most successful concerts ever given at ■urton tooji in aid ot tno ueigian Helicr i 1 iuid. Oongs were given ay Mesdames Salmon and (Jaineron, Mias ii-aj. tnv.'a-y t>, ivxessrs balicon, Ben, Mori i-joa, ana (j. M Kenzie, eacii of wiioiu was vociferously encored. Misses Townshend and iNoiriaa opened botli parts witn a pianoforte duet. 'J 'lie fancy axe and club swinging items by Mr Cameron were a real tm.i, but the auctioned unsuccessfully demanded more. Miss M. Rouiston gave an all too short exhibition of two Scottish dances. The school children sang two patriotic songs and before the interval the girls, with prettily arranged baskets of foliage and bloom, sang '• Won't, you Buy my Pretty Flowers," and then fold their baskets', contents, kindly donated by Mr Hayhurst and Miss' Brookland. The accompaniments were played by Mrs Salmon and Miss Norrish. Before the singing, of the National Anthem which concluded the programme, Mr G. Shaw (who .presided in his usual hr.ppy style), proposal votes of thanks to the Teinuka performers, to Messrs A. Shaw and R. Brookland who motored them to and from Oiton, and to all who helped to make the concert such a success. By the sale of delicious home made sweets, given by Mrs Taylor, the* selling of some presents given by Mr Mason of Orari. Mrs Taylor, and other kind fr'ends, and the proceeds of a "number of pnns in a bottle" guessing conrn°tit'on brought "more gr'st to tl>» mill." During +li« interval the concert and dance, n supper was handed vnnrfrl bv the Ovton hidios. whose s lr, ''l in baiting cannot be ?"V----r>nssed. Th<» f.raiv'nt frn>vi the concert and dnnoe was £9. wr>s a,-n(rnK»n+ftrl bv +hp. sum of n rewsiitn.-fcort Fawkes who visited Orton on the sth inst.