Many Gay Costumes In Children’s Fancy Dress Parade

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 24 December 1948, Page 4

Many Gay Costumes In Children’s Fancy Dress Parade

Children of all shapes and sizes dressed in costumes of all patterns and colours flocked to the children’s fancy dress 'parade at Whakatane yesterday. A gay variety of dresses showed that much work and ingenuity had been employed in preparing many of the costumes. It was a great, gaudy procession with a multitude of colour. If there had been a piper in front it could easily have passed for the happy band that followed the pied piper from Hamelin so many years ago. At the monument the procession halted and waited for Father Christmas, who was being rescued—or rather assisted—from the balcony of the Whakatane Hotel by. the Whakatane Fire Brigade. He accompanied the procession back to the clear space at the western end of the town where the judges of the costumes, Mr and Mrs W. Clark, Ohope, announced the winners. Each winner and runner-mp in each group received a cash prize, while each child received an ice cream and sweets. The Prize-Winners Fancy Dress Costumes, boys under 5' Michael .Cummings 1, Graham Fla veil 2. Gi;rls: Joan Patterson, Margaret Evington, Shirley Bloor equal 2. Girls 5-7: Lana Lovell 1, Glenda Mclntosh 2. Boys: Gordon Robb 1, Grant Whittaker 2. Girls 8-12: Ann Cannell, Shona Brebner equal 1, Priscilla Wilson* Ngaire West equal, 2. Boys: Brian Morpeth 1, Lance Butler, Robin Scragg equal 2. Girls 13 and 14: Ora Ranby 1, Marie Murray 2. Boys: David Metcalfe 1, Amarau 2. Decorated pram, girls up to 8: Karene Shaw 1, Lynn Currie, Doreen Woods equal, 2. Decorated trolley or, car, girls: Young N.Z. Club 1. Boys over 8: David Metcalfe 1. Decorated tricycle, girls up to 8: Doreen Woods 1. Decorated bicycle, boys and girls up to 7: Peter Mollett 1, Bob Macklow 2. Boys and girls 8-12: Wendy Whittle 1, Bessie Whittle 2. Other display, boys and girls, open: Robin Zinsli 1, j Trevor Flay 2. Most original decorated, pram, tricycle, bicycle or other display in procession: Young N.Z. Club 1, David Metcalfe 2. Best dress in procession, girl: Shona Brebner 1, Pamela Armstrong 2. Boy: Gordon Robb 1, Grant Whittaker 2.