ANNUAL BALL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1931, Page 11

ANNUAL BALL.

Government Buildings and Pujblic Trust. SUCCESSFUL EVENING.

When the combined staffs of the new Government Buildings and the Public Trust get together they represent a large number of “red tape” departments, the members of which appear to be on very friendly terms. This was particularly noticeable last evening at the Winter Garden, where the seventh annual ball of the combined staffs was held. A large committee was responsible for the arrangements, and the members had spared no efforts in an endeavour to make the evening the success it has been in past years. In this they did not fail for there was a splendid attendance and from the start the dance was an unqualified success. Several attractive items were arranged for the entertainment of the guests. They were: Solo dance by Miss Edna Gill, Rhapsody in Blue (The Blue Danube) by six of Miss Gill’s pupils, an exhibition of ballroom dancing by Miss Evelyn Edgar and Mr W. J. Wallace. The Bailey-Marston Orchestra supplied the music. *- -

The committee comprised the following:—Misses Dorothy Wilkins (Pensions Department), Julie P. Brosnahan (State Fire Department), Lita Clark (Treasury Department), Ruby E Walker (State Fire Department) , Messrs J. B. Jackson (Public Works Department), L. T. Roberts (Public Trust Department), A. J. Harper (Stamps Department), D. S. Gower (Public Works Department), G. Greenway (Agricultural Department) and K. O. Bullen (State Fire Department),, secretary.

Miss Wilkins wore a lovely frock of cream lace appliqued at the hipline with pastel pink velvet flowers, and a coatee to match. Miss Brosnahan wore a dainty love-bird green lace frock, trimmed with tiny rosebuds across the corsage. Miss Clarke’s dainty frock was of ivory satin with a narrow diamanteclasped belt, and a net coatee banded with satin. Miss Walker wore an attractive frock of marigold fisher-net over satin, with frills at the hem of the skirt, and marigold velvet flowers at the neckline and on the full skirt. Those present included, Mesdames JB Wood, A. B. Talbot, Henry Searle, Walter Olliver, Alan Robiiliard, M. L. Pye, Eric Boon, Frank Matthews, J. O. M’Gillivray, V. Ballinger, M. W. Baker, Maurice Toomer, J. H. Blair and Robert Mercer: Misses Lucy Rattray, Rhona Cummings, Dorothy Wilkins, Janet Wilkins, Betty Bowling, Phyllis Plimmer, Kaara Trent, Maude James, Mavis Wright, Helen Russell, Barbara Brown, Winnie Ramsay, Gloria Judkins, Peggy Taylor, Thelma Swanston, Julie Brosnahan, Ruby Walker, Lyra Hickey, Esther Devereux, Lotty Raff, Joan Wicks, Queenie Hart, Phyllis Limbrick, Edna Gill. Edna Cameron, Ella FitzGeorge, Doris Tucker, Betty Cossan,

Irene Blackeway, Iris M’Dougah Clarice M’Dougall. Dorothy Hubanci’ Barbara Pilgrim, Peggy Angus, Gwen Whittington, Edna Edmonds Peggv Harrison, Eunice Weaklev, Alma Hill, Bunty Armstrong, Joan Yardley, Toan Henderson, Mona Harper. Rita Clark, Lita Clark, Violet Gower, Noeline Craythorne, Marjorie Irwin, Kura Campbell, Joan Dawe, Inga Hempstalk. Myrtle Robertson, Eve Martin, E. M’Carrie, Betty Townshend, M*adge Davison. Mary Leckie, Grace Moulin, Eileen King, Gwen Andrews, Estelle Aldridge, Florence Haworth, Carleen Cox, Olive Eslick, Hazel Clark, Iris Metcalfe, Eve Davies, Vera Davies, Rosa Smith, Muriel Hazelhurst, Eva Dickie, Joan Watkinson, Lillias Doig, Betty Winchester, Doris James, Lily Cookson, Dorothea Smith, Irine Poole, Orma Fretwell, Ethel Robinson, Edna Cheetham, Pearlie Hales, Thelma Grant, Dorice Mac Duff, Peggy Rhind, Rellis Bunker, Ethne Tosswell, Wynne Tait, Annie Watkins, Ethel Thomas. Cynthia Wood, Peggy Henderson, Evelyn Edgar, Jean Ross. Rema Morrow, Amuri Gill, Vera Gasson, Vera Frederickson, Lorna Rushbrook, Constance and Esma Colombus, Ailsa Comerford, Evelyn Duckworth, Edna M’Conachy, Kathleen Hitt, Phyllis Newth, Eva Little, Rosa Hookham, M. Drysdale, Betty Heasley, Mai Willers (Ashburton), Estelle Samuels, Eileen Burke and Mifanwy Norris.