SCOTTISH SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 30 (Supplement)

SCOTTISH SOCIETY.

Final Ceilidh of Season is Held. The Scottish Society held the last Ceilidh of the year,, in the rooms, Manchester Street, on Thursday evening. The Chief, Mr G. M. Telfer, presided, and with him were Chieftains George Sutherland and R. M. Speirs.

The proceedings were opened with the singing of the society’s Ode, led by Miss Betty Munroe. A lament was played by Pipe Major J. M’Lachlan for the late Mr George Smith, of Sumner, who had been a loyal member of the society for nearly twenty years. The Chief eulogised the splendid service rendered by Mr Smith, particularly during the early days of its formation. During the evening Mr J. Cox, of Christchurch, presented the society with a facsimile of the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns’s Poems of 1786, and received the thanks of the members. If was announced that the Gordon benefit concert had been a most successful event

and a letter of appreciation was read from Mrs Gordon. The following programme was presented:—Selection, the society’s Pipe Band: Highland reel. Misses Jean Napier, Mae Saunders, Violet Milne and Joan M’Donald; songs, Miss King, Miss Richardson, Master Mack well. Master Poole, Messrs Richards and Doig; instrumental duet, pipes and banjo, Messrs Woodward and Munroe: Reel o’ Tulloch. Misses Nancy Hoy. May Donaldson. Thelma Buist and Jessie Kennedy: Highland fling, Miss Joan M’Donald; Sean Triubhais, Miss Mae Saunders. The accompanist for the evening was lowed.