BRILLIANT SCENE AT CALEDONIAN HALL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 5 August 1931, Page 10

BRILLIANT SCENE AT CALEDONIAN HALL.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS’ HAVE ANNUAL BALL. Always noted for their hospitality, the members of the committee of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers’ Association surpassed even their previous efforts last evening, when the annual ball of the association was held in the Caledonian Ilall. Every effort was made to provide for the comfort and entertainment of the guests, who numbered over 350. The ball was an unqualified success and the decorative scheme was especially effective. In the ballroom, streamers in the associa tion colours, black and gold, were arranged alternately in radiating designs round the walls, while an enormous canopy of black and gold streamers was formed from the centre of the ceil ing to the walls. Streamers in the same colours in quaint design with a small fringed edge softened the brilliance of the electric lights. Vases of narcissi and birch foliage decorated the supper tables. Below the stage, which was massed with palms and hothouse plants, were the buffets. Music was supplied by the Bailey-Marston Orchestra. The members of the ball committee were:—Messrs R. Nash, T. Aspell, J. C. Wallace, J. L. Bennett, J. Bisman, J. M. Coffey, J. J. Cotter, R. C. Dobson, IT. L. Dyer, D. Edmonds, J. Griffin, T. ITampson, T. G. Hodgson, A. J. Lambert, J. M’Clure, W. M. Nidd, H. Nickolls, C. Piper, T. Quirk, J. C. Rex, H. Robinson and J. O. M'Gillivrary (secretary). The guests of honour were:—Mr R. Nash, president of the association, and Mrs Nash, the Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., and Mrs Sullivan, Mr and Mrs J. S. Neville, Mr 11. S. S. Kyle, M.P., and Mrs Kyle, Mr 11. T. Armstrong, M.P., and Mrs Armstrong, Superintendent C. C. Warner and Mrs Warner. Mrs Nash, wife of the president, wore an attractive frock of floral georH 1 Hi lIH HO HI HI H 3 EE HI HI HI lIS HI HI HI HI HJ HI HI HI

H HI HI EE H (U HHI HI US ID ID d! EE! HI HI ® (U ® (U gette patterned in apricot green and j brown tones, the very long skirt having I a flared flounce falling to the ankle? i at the sides. She also wore a frilled ; panne velvet bridge coat of soft I meadow green. Others present included:—Mesdames 1 A. M’Duff, Nelson Boyd, J. O. M’Gil- \ livray, A. J. Lambert, G. Jones, L Stockdale, A. W. Wells, J. Vovce (Lyt- [ telton), N. Brooks (Lyttelton), A. J. Daly, W. Wrightson, W. Lester, E Doyle, L. Coutts (Ashburton), N Clarke, T. Quirk, J. L. Bennett, W. Queree, M. Whitty, C. O’Donoghue, 11. F. Anderson, J. F. Goulding, Alex Brown, E. 11. Hogg, A. R. Pool (Yaldhurst), J. R. Franks, IT. Beale, S Cavanagh, W. Brown, A. Barrett, G. Luxton, R. J. Rothwell, J. D. Parker, N. Bailes, L. Gregory, E. Chambers, G. Petty, Ronald Grant, C. J. Mulhane, P. Helmling, Lyndon P. Christie, R A. Bidgood, J. Oakley, T. M. Coffey, C. E. Hollis. T. Lord,' W. Masson, R. Colthart, O. F. Watson, H. Henry, J. F. Mason, C. E. Davis, J. C. Wallace, 11. Dulieu, E. W. Hasell, J. M’Kenzie, J. J Cotter, Chas< Lawrence, Monty Winter (Auckland), H. Brown, M M’Duff, Victor Drake, H. A. Nickolls, Claude Piper, H. Bell. E. Campbell, David Lusk, Arthur Rose, Frank Dyer, IT. L. Dyer, W. A. Erasmuson, E. Newberry, E. Ward (Methven), B. Martin and 11. Wonnacott; Misses V’. Walklin, Peggy Richardson, Maud Murphy, Dorothy Bourne, Amuri Gill, Marjorie Robinson, Rini Armstrong. Isabel Gould, M. Neville, Edna Lester, Julie Brosnahan, Lydia Dillaway, Rita Dennis, B. Bexley, J. Wylie, Marion M’Kenzie, Doris Newey, Peggy Fox, Veo Jones, Joan Luxton, D. Fraser. Elsie Smith, J. Dempsey, E. Graham. Joan Smith, Mary Maloney, Alma Keller, Margaret M’Tigue, Gabriel M’Evedv, Patsy Maher, Constance Willis, Estelle Doherty, Helen King, P. Lisle, M. Williams, Freda Ilolford. Rani Stewart, Dolly Bryce, Gladys Bowers. Irene Round, Yalmai Falloon, Essie Owles, Marv Boyd, Nancy Patrick. Eileen Bell (Dunedin), Edna Ferguson, Elsie Smith (Timaru l , Edith Smith (Timaru). Grace Brown (Cul|verden). Dulcie Bell, Mercia Cotton, W Hay, Rita Johnson, Gwen Merfield. Muriel Kerr, Y. Merfield, Helen Grimmer, Mena von Lubbe, Muriel Cox, Myra Johnston, Alice Poison, Rua Simpson. Madge Osborn, Lilian Shaw, Stella Juwett, Madge Young. Myrtle | Bailey, M. Chick, Marjorie Pearson Pouline Jeffreys, Thirza M’Leod and Eileen O’Connell.