ALL CLUBS BUSY

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 148, 13 November 1942, Page 4

ALL CLUBS BUSY

Entertaining Servicemen Members of the Victory Club were busy during the weekend entertaining men pt the forces. Corporal O’Brien sang on Friday and Jean White, G. Parsons, Mavis ' Thornton and A/C2 Ross Thornton won special prizes. A community sing was led by Corporal Owen Barnard on Saturday night. Extras, were played by Marjorie Pegram, Ngaire Slack and Gunner J. Marshall. Helpers included Mrs. Slack, Misses Mavis and Jean Rae, Anne Lander, Jean Day. Wynne Smith, Gladys Moir, Nancy Gibson and Messrs. Wade and Henderson. _ The' Kilbirnie R.S.A. clubrooms at-6< Mahora Street , were well patronized by men of the fighting services on Sunday. Dancing and games -were enjoyed, and music was supplied by Mrs. R. Smith. Girls from canteen section No. 2, under the supervision of Mrs. Watson, helped in entertaining. Afternoon tea, high .tea and supper were provided and served .’ey the women’s committee. Hundreds of servicemen were entertained at the Cinderella Club during the weekend. The rooms were decorated with bowls of golden broom and the attractive salad tea served on Sunday night was much appreciated. Thanks are due to the many who kindly sent gifts of food. Girls on duty on Friday were Misses D. Jameson. S. Cox, B. Crighton, K. Crist, J. Dalgleish, M. Daniel, Nancy Ede. Mrs. Allan and the orchestra played for the dancing on Sunday, for which honorary service the thanks of the men and girls are given.

At the Grosvenor Club on Sunday night large crowds of visiting servicemen were entertained with swing music supplied by Messrs. Jack Harris and Cave Nichols. Canteen helpers over the weekend were Mesdames Scott, Garratt, Gordon and Denton, and Misses Better, Gunning, Davies, Haynes, Hughes., and Smith. Thanks are given to Miss Sheila Dampney for her generous gift of eggs to be used in the servicemen’s wards of Wellington Hospital when the club members attend there today. The. weekly dance held at the Toe II Servicemen’s Club, 216 Lambton Quay, was largely attended by men on leave and music was supplied by women musicians. Supper was provided by generous friends and was served by the r women present. Sunday’s entertainment was held in the comfortable flowerdecorated lounge. Games and community singing were enjoyed. The restful atmosphere was appreciated by the men present. Again supper was provided by women helpers. Contributions of flowers and reading ■ matter would be appreciated by the committee. Wellington North electorate members, with Miss Madge McGregor as convener, were in charge of catering at the National Club on Sunday the previous week Mrs. D. J. Fyfe and Wellington West helpers being in charge, and bringing with them foodstuffs that provided addi-

tional fare for the menus. Misses Josephine Russell ' and Ailsa Martin were in charge of last Saturday week’s tea dance, and this weekend the hostesses were Misses 'Patricia Hogg and Betty ’McLaren. A gift of meat was received, and both weeks cabbages were sent in by the W.W.S.A. land group at Lower Hutt. Items at the Spinsters’ Club on Sunday included songs by Miss Loris Borton, violin solos by Mr. Graham Johnstone, acrobatic dance by Miss Doreen Kennedy, songs at the piano by Mr. Assheton Harbord, and tap dances and songs by Mr Peter Rowell. Mr. Allan Shand played dance extras, and a soldier added variety with castanets accompaniment. The Majestic Cabaret was crowded with more than 1000 servicemen and several hundred girls, and members of the club spent a busy time serving the savoury tea which they provide each week. Mrs. Rowell organized the concert party. Thanks are extended to members who assisted with the street collection on Rose Day.

N.Z. Troops Popular. The president of an Oxford college., who had offered to entertain New Zealand sol fliers. states, in a recent letter to a Dunedin friend : “I haven’t yet come across any New Zealand troops,’ but you wjl! be interested to know that they are sped ally popular and have the reputation oi giving no trouble. Some of the other Dominion forces, having been over here for two years or more, - and finding none of the fighting for which they came, get, not unnaturally, fed up and release their energies explosively. But there has been really very little of that either— a few minor ‘incidents;’ I can imagine that-anyone from the wider spaces overseas must feel that England is a bit small —as, indeed, it is.”