"ALL HALLOWE'EN"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 7

"ALL HALLOWE'EN"

SMITH FAMILY FUNDS

DANCING AND BRIDGE

"All Hallowe'en" was celebrated in many parts of Wellington last evening, and its accompanying rites were witnessed ,by a large number of young_ people who attended the dance held last evening by the younger members of the Smith Family. The Conference Hall of tho Dominion Farmers' Institute was brightened ' with appropriate decorations, screecl.-owls, pumpkins, ghosts, black cats, witches, and other emblems of "Hallowe'en" eerieness adorning the walls and pillars, the latter also being festooned with greenery. .The extinguishing of the lights and the flickering of lanterns coincided with the arrival of the "witch" at midnight, who, with accompanying incantations, invited the dancers to read their fortunes on the fortune-wheel. Earlier in the evening a fortune teller had also been busy predicting alluring futures for her clients. Introduced into the dance programme was a tap dance by the Thompson brothers, and an exhibition of ballroom dancing by Mr. and Mrs. Southern Colledge. Members of the committee present were Mrs. Vaughan, Misses Meadows, Miss F. Cooper, Miss Morton, Colonel Cowles (chairman), and Mr. McNaught (secretary). BRIDGE PARTY. In < another room in the same building a bridge party was held by members of the Smith Family, both parties being; in aid of the Christmas. Hamper Fund. The ■ competition, 'which had been continued / throughout previous bridge parties, was concluded. The large room, which was filled with tables, was decorated with bowls of Iceland poppies- and foliage. Among those who arranged tables were Mesdames B. B. Wood, E. W. Kane, Christie, Godfrey, Wilson, Murdoch, Manscl, J. F. Bcicl, Harper, Levy, Zander, Thirnside, King, A. Nimmo, Delmonte, Meadows, Clarke, Ellis, Mahan, Bcvan, Stephen Cowles, Tattersall, Waters, Bennie; Misses Hyde, Clark, Mitchell, Richardson, Tustin, Banks, Marks, Smith; and Messrs. Ellis, Bcvan, Woodman, and Neale.