Welcome Visitors At Awakeri Dance
Awakeri Hall was filled with a gay crowd and ingeniously original hats for the Junior National Party Club’s “Mad Hatters” dance last Saturday evening. Freddie Burt’s orchestra played well through an evening of unusual novelties and unexpected thrills, for half way through the evening the Leader - of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, and five other National Party members of the House of Representatives arrived and received a tumultuous welcome. The other visitors, were Messrs. W. J. Broadfoot (Waitomo), W. Sullvah (Bay of Plenty), and Mrs Sullivan, T. L. McDonald (Wallace), W. H. Fortune (Eden) and J. R. Marshall (Mt. Victoria). Mr Holland introduced his party to the delightful crowd who roared a separate welcome for each, and acclaimed musical honours spontaneously. Shortly after their arrival, a Leap Year dance was announced and the visitors were not slow in showing their willingness to co-operate, and joined the dancers on the crowded floor. When it was time' to leave, the crowd once more roared its appreciation of the Parliamentary party’s attendance. Monte Carlos, snowballs, statue dances and other novelties succeeded one another with quickfire rapidity and it was with the greatest reluctance that the dancers left the hall at midnight.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 91, 21 October 1947, Page 4
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204Welcome Visitors At Awakeri Dance Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 91, 21 October 1947, Page 4
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