COMBINED STAFFS HAVE SECOND ANNUAL DANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 173, 23 July 1931, Page 10

COMBINED STAFFS HAVE SECOND ANNUAL DANCE.

NEWMARKET, ECONOMIC AND M. HOLLANDER LTD

Wearing pretty frocks is much more fun than selling them, as many of the feminine members of the staffs of Newmarket Ltd., Economic Ltd., and M. Hollander Ltd., found out last evening when they attended the firms* combined staffs’ second annual dance at the Winter Garden. The large committee responsible for the arrangements had spared no efforts in providing for the enjoyment of the guests. A ballet by pupils of Miss Iris Edmonds was greatly appreciated as also was the exhibition of modern ballroom dancing by Miss Edmonds and Mr Desmond Day. Clusters of balloons were hung in the ballroom, while novelties of the squeaker and blow-out variety caused much amusement amongst the dancers. Music was supplied by the Bailey-Marston orches- , tra.

_ The guests of honour were Mrs Morris Hollander, who wore an attractive frock of lacquer red georgette beaded in red. with ankle length skirt and flared hip-frill, and Mr and Mrs Philip Hollander, the latter wearing a pretty frock of parchment pink satin trimmed with diamante, fully flared to the ankles, and a floral brocaded bridge coat.

The committee consisted of the following:—Miss I. Hill, Misses I. Hanna, E. Hutt, E. Carmichael, L. Dickson, O. Schrender, INI. Orchard, W. M’Nish and P. M’Nish; Messrs S. Hodgkinson, J. Hamer, F. Thorpy, J. Armitage and T. W. Thomson (hon sec). Miss Hutt wore a powder blue georgette frock with relief in pastel pink; Miss Carmichael, acier blue georgette frock patterned in shaded chrysanthemums ; Miss Dickson, frock of moonlight blue taffetas; Miss Schrender, delph blue crepe suede frock, long flared skirt; Miss M. M’Nish, sea-shell pink satin, beaute, fully flared skirt; Miss P. M’Nish, applegreen satin beaute frock cut on long slim lines. Others present included:—Mesdames A. Brown, J. Hamer. L. Daniel, E. Whyte, R. Ramshaw, S. C. Hodgkinson, T. W. Thomson, W. B. Gracie, P. G. Stringer, D. Wright, E. Dodgson, H. Daniel, C. C. Kemp, M. W. Baker, A. Staunton, C. G. Warren, P. Helmling, S. Helmling, W. Dennis, C. J. Mulhane, Arthur Rose and A. B. Smith; Misses Joyce Scanes, Margaret Mathieson, Ellalaine Peachboon, Ethel Parry, D. M’Leod, E. Alexander, G. Highstead, Daphne Taylor, M. Wood, Monica M’llroy, Alma Stewart, Eileen M’Carthy, Marion Costello, Mabel King, Joyce Algie, Vena Kettle, Joan Henderson, Ray Holmes, Rosmarie Elson, Ada Taylor, Rosa Hookham, Ruby Guy, Billie Anderson, Doris Foote, Jessie Anderson, Janie Rennell, Alma Keller, Barbara Pilgrim Ella Moore, Joan Whitworth, E. Mountford, J. Cutts, Lucy Rattray, Ella Wilson, Nellie Barlass, Olive Whyte, Eileen Fantham, Zeta Haase, Flossie Fantham, Aline Memmott, Nancy Hookham, Dorothy Williams, Peggy Fox, Gladys Wilson, Louise Dickson, Mary Yeadon, Jessie Ramsay, E. Haase, Ada Skelton, R. Haase, D. Vincent, Marie Woolley Mabe Nolan and Margaret Woodham.