TEMUKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 4

TEMUKA

CHILDREN’S FANCY DRESS BALL HAPPY TIME SPENT Many weeks of careful preparation were rewarded by outstanding displays of dancing by pupils of the Temuka District High School at a children’s fancy dress ball in the Drill Hall on Friday evening. An extended area of asphalt around the primary department is required and the proceeds from the function are to be devoted to that purpose. For half an hour in the early part of the evening the main street was thronged with miniature Chinese in true oriental dress, little Victorian ladies, colourful military uniforms, cowboys, fairies, tramps and the hundred and one impersonations in which children delight. Their dresses transformed the Drill Hall into a fairyland where the children spent an unforgettable evening. Before the judging of the dresses in each of the classes the pupils gave displays of rhythmic games, marching and dancing which were warmly applauded by the adult spectators. After the placings had been announced supper was served to the performers in the Volunteer Hall by a committee under Mrs J. K. Young and Mrs W. L. Harrison. After the competitions a dance for the adults was held, the music being supplied by a local orchestra and Mr G. A. Washington acting as M.C. Considerable care and no small amount of originality were exhibited in the 400 fancy costumes, the judges, Mesdames E. Blackmore and W. J. Keys and Misses G. A. Brown and M. Ferguson, makinfi the following awards:— Girls Infants under 5: Marion Wilson (fairy) 1, Ngaire Henderson (Red Riding Hood) and Naomi Gourley (Pompadour) 2. Infants: Norma and Leslie Abernethy (Princes in the Tower) 1, Elya Reid (Page) 2, Ruth Brown (Indian Giri) h.c. Standards 1 and 2: Gwenyth Talbot (Sunrise) 1, Fay Bell (Christmas Tree) 2, Olga Watt (Duck) h.c. Standards 3 and 4: Joye Ashwell (Early Victorian Lady) and Jacqueline Coombs (Butterfly) 1, Margaret Brown (Joan of Arc) 2. Forms 1 and 2: Mildred Coombs (Turkish Boy) 1, Stella Hill (Dutch Girl) 2, June Beck (Spanish Lady) h.c. Secondary: Isobel Currie (Victorian Lady) 1, Alva Hammond (Naughty Marietta) 2. Boys Infants under 5: Alister Frasel (Baker) 1, Brian Smith (Little Boy Blue) 2, Ken Norton (Flower Girl) h.c. Infants: Douglas Wilson (Huntsman) 1, Billy Ash well (Gollywog) 2, Dick Southby (Swagger) h.c. Standards 1 and 2: Lionel Hill (Love? lock) 1, Charlie Coombs (Mexican) 2, Billy Southby (Organ Grinder) special. Standards 3 and 4: Robert Upton (Maori) 1, Ronald Green (Gollywog) 2, Eddy Trezise (Cat) h.c. Forms 1 and 2: Wallace Hopkinson (Legionnaire) 1, Fred Pearce (Swagger) 2. Secondary: Jack Laurenson (Scarlet Pimpernel) 1, Alan Horgan (Why did I Kiss That Girl) 2, Robert Thompson (Big Chief Sitting Bull) h.c. Most humorous: Mary Mahan and Dick Keys (Nurse and Child) 1, Ivor Stanley (Guaranteed Prices) 2. Most economical: Olive Hopkinson (“Timaru Herald”) 1, Joan Shanks (Washerwoman) 2. Most original: Lionel Hill (Lovelock) 1, Zena Denison (Use More Wool) 2. Mr A. E. Smith, chairman of the committee, apologised for the absence of the Mayor and thanked the spectators for their attendance. He thanked various people and organisations for the use of seating accommodation, the parents for responding liberally in providing supper, the ladies’ committee for its support and the judges, teaching staff, caretaker of the hall and people who had lent crockery.