FANCY DRESS PARTY AND BABY SHOW

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 10

FANCY DRESS PARTY AND BABY SHOW

To raise funds to start a maternity fund, the Timaru Housewives Union held a most successful fancy dress party and baby show in the Wentworth Hall on Saturday afternoon. The hall was packed with children in fancy costumes and mothers with their babies, who each spent a merry afternoon. The judges of the fancy dresses were Mrs Satterthwaite and Mrs Hall and of the babies. Miss Lindsay (matron of the Hospital) and Sister Adams. The results were: Fancy dress.—Best national, Phyllis Low; best couples, Trevor and Joan Griffiths, “Indians,” Dorothy Lvne and Gwenda Griffin, “Mickey and Minnie Blouse”; best fancy, Shirley Robinson, “Early Victorian”; Ken Low, "Military”; Ngaire Williamson, “Queen Elizabeth,” Eileen Robb, “Cupid”; best poster, Shirley Gibson (Gibson’s Hairdressers) ; most original, Jill Davies, “Doll in a box,” Douglas Gribbon. “Coster”; best paper, Betty Ward “Chicken," Pat Reeve “Red and Black Pierrette”; cheapest costume, Noeline McKellar “Newspaper.” Baby show’. —Boys under 6 months. Edwin Smalridge 1, Tom Smith 2. Girls under 6 months, Melba Gribbon 1, Constance Head 2. Boys under 12 months, Ronald Treadwell 1, Noel Seyb 2. Girls under 12 months, Florence Currie 1. Youngest baby, Peter Currie. Items given during the afternoon were as follows: —Skipping rope dance and operatic dance, Audrey Beynon; Highland Fling, Leo Downey; tap dance, Eileen Beynon; duet, Masters John and Win. Hosking, “Convent Bells”; recitation, Dorothy Drew, “Goblin Fair”; duet in character, Gwenda and Molly Griffen, “No John”; skipping dance, Dorothy Lyne.