FANCY DRESS DANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 9

FANCY DRESS DANCE

WESTMERE CHILDREN’S BALL DENTAL CLINIC BENEFITS Held in the Westmere Hall with a view to augmenting the funds of the Westmere committee of the Wanganui Mobile Dental Clinic, the Westmere children’s fancy dress dance proved a huge success The net profit is reported to have been approximately £B. At an appropriate interval the chairman, Mr. (J. Corliss, expressed the gratitude of th© committee at the generous support which had been accorded the function. On behalf of the committee he extended thanks to Miss M. Sutton and Mr. Tanks for the hard work they had undertaken in training the children, to Mrs. V. Wilson and Air. Robert Ross for supplying tho music, and to Mr. A. Winwood for conveying the children to the function. To the parents and supporters they were greatly indebted for their loyal co-operation. The duties of M.C. for the dance were in the capable hands of Mr. M. Laird. . Among those in fancy dress were:— Beth Rogers, 80-Peep; Lera Kumcroa. plain; Colin Dawes, page; Claude Goater, pierrot; Mary Corliss, old English lady; Alan Smart, sailor; Owen Ponting, clown; Earle Prujean, Turk; Clive Sloss, plain; Arthur Littlejohn, Jack-in-a-box: Bruce Donald, golliwog; Campbell McMinn, clumsy clown; lan Loader, circus clown; Alex Barnes, pirate; Jack Sloss, plain; I’at Barron, down; Joy Page, Italian girl; Don Dickinson, swagger; Naomi Thompson, Indian girl; Ray Laird, Japanese boy; Kevin Barron, no more strikes; Marjorie Ponting, daffodil; John Taylor, Father Christmas; Peter Littlejohn, a French student; Betty Laird, Gipsy; Joyce Laird, sweet lavender; Alice I Ferguson, harlequin; Patty Edwards, princes; Ronny Pedley, butcher; Margaret Sykes, tulip; lan Donald, clown; Betty (Dawes, night; Mary Gertrude O’Reilly, old English lady; Bobby Morgan, Gipsy boy; Maurice Wilson, jockey; Bobby Elwards, tennis boy; Keith Wilson, speed; Gordon Pull, jockey; Nocline Pedley, carnival girl; i Linda Page, Little Boy Blue; Marjorie Taylor, crinoline lady; Mary Dunbar, Dutch girl; Mavis Connell, Dutch girl; Gwen Wickham, Dutch girl; Doris Papworth, (Dutch girl; Joan Franklin, rainbow; Ethel Taylor, Indian princess; Joyce Barron, nurse; Winnie Crozier, nurse; Clarice Goater, Japanese girl; Norma Taylor, Welsh lady; Mildred Sykes, fairy tale princess; Anne O’Reilley, 80-Peep; Kami* Kumeroa, plain; Margaret Taylor, waitress; Eileen Dutch girl; Joyce Hotter, shamrock; Gabrille Corliss, chicken; Jack Corliss, tin soldier: John Donald, tin soldier; Keith Donald, tin soldier; Harry Goater, tin soldier; Paul Elliott, guard; Brian Corliss, rajah; Lex Thompson, Indian; .Jim Laird, rooster; Graham Prujean, tin soldier; David O’Reilley, Spaniard; Kelvin Taylor, clown: Keith Taylor, cowboy; Evan Littlejonn, sailor. T. E. LAWRENCE’S MOTHER. Lawrence of Arabia’s mother and eldest brother, Robert, arrived in England on July 11 from China ifl the Holt liner Antenor. Airs. Lawrence, who is 73, has not been well, and remained in seclusion on the voyage, but her youngest son, Mr. Arnold Lawrence, who met the boat at Tilbury, told a representative of the Daily Telegraph that arrival in a temperate climate had much improved her health, Mrs. Lawrence has been in China for the past two and a-half years with Mr. Robert Lawrence, who is a medical missionary. They had just left his station, 1000 miles up the Yangtse River, to begin the journey home, when the news arrived of T. E. Lawrence’s death. They stayed in London on the night of their arrival at the home of Mr. Arnold Lawrence, who is an archaeologist at Cambridge University. Mrs. Lawrence went into the Midlands to stay with friends the following day. She had not decided, her youngest son said, whether or not she will visit T. E. Lawrence's grave at Moreton, Dorset. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE BIRTHDAY PARTY AT UTIKU. The second birthday party of the Utiku Women’s Institute was celebrated In the Utiku Hall last Wednesday afternoon, when a large crowd was present, including visitors from Silverhope, Ohingaiti, Mangaweka, M’akirikiri, Fordell, Aramoho and Westmere. Telegrams of congratulation were received from Mataroa, Maxwell ami Rangiwaea branches. Among the visi tors present were: Mrs. Brine, president of the Wanganui federation, who made an appeal for clothing for the I’orirua patients; Mrs. Parley, treasurer of the Wanganui Federation, who spoke on the sick benefit fund; Mrs. Dale, reporter for the magazine “Home and Country,” and Mrs. Millon, voluntary organiser, who warmly congratu lated the institute on its rapid grow.h during the past two years. Mrs. G. Transom, who attended the Dominion Conferoncf al. Auckland re cent as delegate, read an interesting report of the conference. During the afternoon various items were given and loudly applauded, the contributing artists being Mrs. Witherington (recitation), Miss Gwen Reid