Children’s Fancy Dress Dance

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 36, 22 December 1948, Page 5

Children’s Fancy Dress Dance

Taneatua hall was filled to capacity with parents and children when the fancy dress dance organised by the school committee, was held there last week. An excellent programme had been arranged, and the children obviously enjoyed presenting their items to the appreciative audience. There were approximately 150 children in fancy costume representing all manner of things, but all being most effective and reflecting the work put into them by the mothers. The programme: Grand March-, all children; Song and Dance, “The Lovely Princess” Primers, “Swedish Clap” Stds 1 and 2; Military Twostep, Seniors; Song and Dance, “In and out the Dusky Bluebells” Primers; Excuse Me Foxtrot. Seniors; Dance “Durham Reel,” Stds 3 and 4; Musical Parcel, Primers and Stds 1 and 2; Balloon Dance, Seniors; Monte Carlo, Seniors; Musical Arms, Seniors; Mountain Dance, Stds 5 and 6; Streamer Waltz, Seniors. At the conclusion of the programme the .grown ups took the floor while the children w r ere served with supper by a women’s committee. Ice cream was also served. After supper, Mr R. McGougan, chairman of the School Committee, thanked all those who had helped to make such a successful function. He expressed special thanks to the teachers who had trained the children so well and to Messrs Steer, who donated the ice cream, Goodhaw, who donated the balloons and Fitchett, who donated the prizes for the dances. Mr McGougan said that the dance had been organised to complete a fund for the purchase of a piano for the school. The function had been so successful that the object had been achieved.