PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 9

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.

Popular Annual Staff Dance. NOVELTIES ADD TO ENJOYMENT. Various musical items and novelty dances greatly enhanced the popularity of the annual staff dance of the Public Trust Office, which was held last evening in the Frascati Cabaret. Over one hundred couples were present and to them the members of the committee extended a friendly welcome and pleasing hospitality. A varied programme included the following items, which were interspersed among the dances: — Song, Miss Nancy Bowden; recitation, Miss Rae Barrell; songs, Mr W. Toomey and Mr J. B. Pearson; piano solo, Mr C. B. Josland; exhibition dance, Mr and Mrs Leo. Bowden. The guests of honour were Mr A. R. Jordon, District Public Trustee, and Mrs Jordan, who was wearing an attractive gown of black georgette with side panels of fine black lace.

The committee members were: Misses L. V. Hickev (honorary secretary), M. M. Cant, L. B. Todd and E. Frazer; Messrs M. O’Reilly (treasurer), J. M’Carten, G. Wallace and D. M’llroy. Miss Hickey wore a dainty powder pink satin frock with diagonally inset flares, and a jade green panne velvet coatee; Miss Cant’s attractive frock of palest leaf green satin, quaintly embroidered in green and gold, had a yoke and deep hem of pastel pink satin; Miss Todd wore a pretty frock of larkspur blue satin cut on long fitting lines, with a pale marigold ring velvet coatee; Miss Frazer was wearing a dainty frock of mid-night blue ninon, patterned in large lacquer red and beige flowers and mounted over red satin, with a cloak of red velvet.

Music for the dancing was supplied by the Herdman-Fisk Orchestra. A ballon shower and several old-time waltzes added enjoyment to the dance programme.

The guests included the following departmental heads: Mr W. G. ElandNewton and Mrs Hand-Newton, Mr F. Williams and Mrs Williams, Mr T. Auton and Mrs Auton, Mr Ft. A. Cuthbert and Mrs Cuthbert. Among others present were: Mesdames Tl. Haigh, J. M’Dougall. TT. G. Foster. T. R. Taylor, W. J. Walker, J. W. Mardon, W. Holmes, Boland Smith, W. J. Cadenhead, C. J. Robinson and D. S. Boyd, Misses Milford Todd, G. Elill, Sally Howman, Marjorie Gross, Betty Harris, B. Rushbrook, E. Hanna, Hazel Thompson, Beryl Fanning, Mabel Owen, M. Trov, Thelma Brealy, Hollv Fast, Eileen Ramfold, Elsie Treneary, Lilia Smith. Mavis Sherlock. Daphne Brown. M. Abbott, V. G. Bramall, Dorothy Campbell, Rosa Smith, Ola M’Leod, Marion Johnston. Jris M’Dougall, Clarice M’Dougall, Susie Pritchard, Madeline Mears, Audrey Crotty, Marjory Irwin, Lily Perkins, Allison Myers,

Grace Archbold, Winifred Crabbe, Ruby Butler, Mona Butler, Gwenneth Jordan, Edna Johnson, Dorothy Clark, .Till Carrick, Irene Murphy, Edna Dickson, Ruby Walker, Joan Yardley, Rona Davis (Temuka), Hazel Lwn. Irene Grant, Pauline Askew, Phyllis Plimmer, Betty Bowling, Kaaru Trent. Evelyn Dykes. Kitty Cole. Marjory Stevenson, Phyllis Swanstori. R. W. Marshall, Lucy Smeaton. Iris Donovan. Ruth Main, Alma M’Kenzie. Irene Poole. Thelma Poole, Amy Greig, Rae Barrell, Gladys M’Clelland. Joyce Tanner, Pauline Shayle-George, Rose Hughes, Mai Willens (Ashburton), Ksmae Colombus, Dolly M’Duff, Inga Hempstalk. Doris Newey, Dorene Dudley, Phyllis Wakelin (Little River), Effie Carter. Linda Taylor, Joan Da we. Dorothy Tow r art. Elise Colombus, Minta Colombus, Constance Colombus. Maisie Chapman, Estelle Doherty and Julie Iggo.