WELCOME HOME DANCE
GATHERING AT AWAKERI
An •exceptionally large crowd gathered in, the Awakeri Hall ,011 Saturday for an organised Welcome Home Dance visitors being present from Whakatane and Taneatua as well as a full response from the Awakeri district. The Premier Dance Band supplied a good programme of mo. dern and old-time numbers, the duties of M.C. being performed in the usual lively manner by Mr C. Mac Donald. After supper had been dispensed and it was a full time job for tbe ladies and helpers the gathering being so large ? Mr D. Butler in very cordial manner welcomed home on behalf of those present the guests , . 9 ot the evening. They were Driver !J. Fowell rturned from the Middle East and LAC J. Fletcher from the Pacific. The boys received a very loud ovation which' quite drowned their attempts to respond to: Mr Butler's remarks. Mr Butler apologised for the absence of Pte A. Atkinson, W. 0.1. Les Young and Sgt Tui Melville. "We will get them again " he said. '' 1 Dancing was resumed until mid. nighty the majority remaining to the end and maintaining the same lively spirit. A competition for a box of cigars was won by Mr while the fourth! heat of the £6 Monte Carlo was won by Miss I. Sullivan and Mr Dick Hansen.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 14, 12 October 1945, Page 2
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221WELCOME HOME DANCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 14, 12 October 1945, Page 2
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