CHILDREN'S FANCY DRESS BALL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8021, 29 September 1906, Page 2

CHILDREN'S FANCY DRESS BALL.

IN AID OF HOSPITAL. The children's plain and fancy dreas ball arranged by Mrs G. P. Furby, in aid of the fund for famishing the children's convalescent ward and providing bed jackets at the Waikato Hospital, was a great sue uwssin every presented a gay and brilliant soe&%~-~ last evening batween the houra of eight and ten, when the little ones held undisputed possession of the floor. The grand march was led off by Miss Oushla Hunter and Mr W. A. Graham. The stage had been simply but effectively decorated in the . ambu'auce colours, rod and white, while the supper room was prettily set up with paper festoons of international flags, prominent amongst them being the Union Jack, Stars and Stripes and the lining Sun ■if Japan. Great credit is due to Mis Fmby, by whom the function was entirely arranged, f.«' providing i.(o. a hi;py hour to the. utile 'Oh; ,i,u 1 ai'liug in a g>od humane c-ijs--. Nor weie h.T ippetlrj without fruit, fur a large numb'r of gen'i-men and ladu* a- ■■'■vd I- various ways, the nupper, foi io» •-'M', being generously supplied. Mr B >otu's orchestra, eoasistmg of Mrs Bootb, (piano), Messrs lijoth (violin), Lome (cornet), B. Munro (euphonium) aud Meachem (string bass), gave excellent music gratis. Mr R. Blakley acted as secretary for Mrs Furby, and Messrs C. L. MacDi >rmid and J. Noble as M.C.'s. There must have been fully 200 children present either in plain or fancy dress, be- * sides 120 adults, exclusive of quite 100 spectators who oocupied the gallery. The gross proceeds should be over £V), as the cash takings at the do or were £IZ, donations making the total above £3O, in addition to some £l3 worth of tickets not yet accounted for. The following is a list of the charaoters the names of which were handed in *t the door, and there were many who neglected to do so :-». Miss Alice Browning, Cherry Ripe; Erio Wheeler, Jockey ; Miss Barbara Wheeler, Fury ; Miss Linda, Cu?sen, Little Red Riding Hood; Rlsie McNicM, Irish Colleen; Leslie Hughes, Footballer; Harold Varney, Highlander; Keith Hunter, a Troubadour; MissCushla Hunter, Butterfly Fairy; Miss Joan Furze, Dutch Feasant; Miss Marjorie banning, Yum Yum; Miss Violet Brewis, Granny; Miss Isabel R instead, Pierrette $ Miss Minnie Cowley. Gipsy Fortune Teller; 4 >liss Nora Cowley, Red Riding Hood; Miss Daisy Brewis, German Peasant; Geo. Ranatead, Aladdin; Miss Hazel Hope, Maori; Miss Stella Lmglill, She Wore a Wreath of Roses; Miss Dorothy Atkin, Polly put the Kettle on ; Miss Jessie Drury, Uueun of the Flowers; Gordon Drury, Young Aus- | tralia; A. G. So.aid, Uncle Sun; MisS Myra Cus3en, Gipsy Fortune Teller j Miss Geraldine Ousson, Grecian Girl; Miss Maggie Mulcahey, Cachucha Dancer; C. McNicol, Day and Night; Miss Nancy Furze, Red, White and Blue; Miss Ida Tyler, Coon: Bertie Wilson, Maori; Miss Ruth Jackson, Flower Girl; Misa Julia Luxford, Japanese Lady; Miss Freda Hammond, Buttercup; Bertie llowdea, Sailor; Miss Pearl Olivers, Japanese Lady; lioy Davidge, Sailor boy. M.ss Hazel Davidge, Star of Peace; Miss Gladys ftthvens, ]i-m..'raldii; Miss Tbomp. si). Rosebud; Miss Madge Soppett, Lidy of Regency Porioi ; Ms, E. D. Wright, Que-* of Hearts : Miss Violet Hunt, The Gardener's Daughter; Miss Hreu la Stevens, Fair Saxon; Miss Kathleen Knight, Folly; Mios lm Bosworth, Lily of the Valley; Jack Thompson, Turk; Frank Thomps n, Sailor B >y; Miss Hilda G wynne, Spanish Dincer; Richard Gwynne, Punchinello; C--.-i.rlie 15 ttl-jy P'errot; Miss Nora Bouley, Pierotte; Miss Maud Mulcahey, Cachu-lii Dancer; Miss Violet Munro, Night; Goorge Munro, Father ChrUtmas; Miss Florence Muuro, Gipsy Queen; Arthur Munro. Sailor ; Miss (vy.Munro, Folly; Miss Vie Varney, Patches and Powder; Norman Knight, Magpie ; Miss Olive Hughes, Romp ; Ralph " *:"ad, Pierrot; Gordon Hughes, Burglar ;;.!!• Ji lsa i> o ris Hammond, Daisy