UNITED SERVICES BALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 20

UNITED SERVICES BALL

ATTENDED BY THEIR EXCELLENCIES

Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Viscountess Gahvay attended the United Services Club ball at St. Francis Hall last night, their presence being all that was required to make the occasion one of the most brilliant functions of the season. There were about five hundred guests. The hall was handsomely decorated. All the women were beautifully gowned and the majority of the men were in uniform.

Even outside there was an air of festivity. A red drugget was laid across the footpath. An awning supported by poles faced with huge fern fronds covered the entrance, and there were uniformed commissionaires waiting to help guests from their, cars and direct them into the hall.

The hall itself was a mass of flags, crests, greenery, wattle, and Iceland poppies, all beautifully arranged. Their Excellencies did not arrive until 9.20 p.m., and long before the hall was packed with people who had been received at the door by the president of the club, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Montgomery Spencer, and Mrs. Spencer. The mess kit of the members of the Navy, Arm}', and Air Force present vie in splendour with the bright colours of the dresses of the womenfolk. A great number of the men were wearing miniature decorations.

Their Excellencies' arrival in the ballroom was the signal for the playing of the National Anthem. Their escort included Major and Mrs. R. G. G. Byron, Captain Lord Dormer, and Lieutenant S. R. Le H. Lombard-Hob-son.

Lady Galway was a very graceful figure in a gown of softest pink heavy silk crepe. She also wore a row of miniature medals, and her jewels included a beautiful diamond brooch and a diamond tiara. Mrs. Byron was wearing dove grey chiffon with a cluster of pink flowers at the waistline. Mrs. Montgomery Spencer's picture frock and jacket were of old gold shot taffeta, the bodice of the frock being ruched.

Many people sat out dances for the pleasure of watching from the balcony the colourful scene the ballroom

floor presented. Liquid refreshments were available throughout the evening in the lounge behind the balcony, and supper was served downstairs in the spacious supper room. There was an excellent orchestra, and dancing continued until a late hour. The ball committee included Lieut.Col. F. M. Spencer, Lieut-Col. G. B. Parkinson (vice-president of the club), Wing-Commander A. de T. Neville, Col. I. T. Standish, Major M. Twhigg, Major E. H. Whiting, Captain D. T. Maxwell, Captain B. N. Vickerman, Lieut. W. Olphert, Lieut. E. H. Waleott. Captain J. Lewis was responsible for the decorations of the hall. AMONG THE DANCERS. Among others present were Mr. H. Turner (Army secretary) and Mrs. Turner, Major-General Sir William Sinclair Burgess, Commodore and Mrs. H. E. Horan and Miss Horan, GroupCaptain and. Mrs. H. W. L. Saunders, Colonel and Mrs. E. Puttick and Miss D. Puttick, Colonel R. Miles and Mrs. Miles, Paymaster-Captain N. T. P. Cooper, Group-Captain and Mrs. T. M. Wilkes, Colonel and Mrs. O. H. Mead, Group-Captain and Mrs. L. M. Isitt. Colonel and Mrs. W. H. Cunninghame. Colonel and Mrs. J. L. Saunders. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. R. A. Row, Lieut.Col. and Mrs. W. G. Stevens, Lieut.Col. and Mrs. S. Crump, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. R. W. Fenton, Lieut.-Col. A. E. Conway and Miss Shirley Conway, Col. and Mrs. R. St. J. Beere, Major and Mrs. C. W. Free, Major and Mrs. A. L. George, Major and Mrs. V. P. Haughton, Major and Mrs. J. L. R. Plimmer, Commander and Mrs. V. G. Webb, Captain Parry, Major and Mrs. A. B. Ross, Major A. A. Tennent, Lieut.Commander and Mrs. F. E. Taylor, Major and Mrs. F. L. Hunt, Major and Mrs. A. V. Jenkins, Major and Mrs. A. B. Sievwright, Captain and Mrs. E. L. Button, Captain and Mrs. L. D. Cohen, Captain A. Gorton and Miss Gorton. Captain and Mrs. K. W. Glasgow, Cap-

tain and Mrs. W. F. Hogg, Captain C. G. Kemp and Miss Kemp, Captain and Mrs. A. C. E. Loadsman, Captain and Mrs. A. H. Mclver, Captain and Mrs. A. G. Thomas, Captain and Mrs. A. W. Greville, Captain and Mrs. G. Heal, Major and Mrs. A. V. Jervis, Major and Mrs. D. W. McClurg, Lieut, and Mrs. L. J. McKelvie, Lieut, and Mrs. M. W. E. Shore, Lieut, and Mrs. T. A.' Turner, Captain and Mrs. A. J. Heron, Flight-Lieut, and Mrs. J. R. S. Agar, Lieut-Commander and Mrs. Cornelius. Lieut, and Mrs. A. J. Crisp, Lieut, and Mrs. J. L. Duigan, Mr. and Mrs. G. Crimp, Mr. and/ Mrs. G. H. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Clere, Mr. and Mrs. D. Fergusson Hogg, Dr. and Mrs. Hughes Steele, Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Couchman, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk, Mri and Mrs. Gerald Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ainslie, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Gore, Mr. and Mrs. B. Furkert, Mr. and^Mrs. B. L. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Quane, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton J. H. Gilmer, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Leicester, Captain and Mrs. Mitchell, Captain and Mrs. A. H. Sugden, Colonel and Mrs. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Boyle, Mesdames G. B. Parkinson, A. de T. Neville, R. W. Fenton, J. M. Twhigg, E. H. Whiting,' J. Lewis, E. H. Walcott, T: Ellis, G. Tringham; Misses Audrey. Davis, Rita Thomson, Claudia Chadwick (Dannevirke), Jean Fogarty, Pamela Fell, Patricia Luckie, Haydon, Mollie Bishop, Margaret Arlow, U. Ransom, Betty Gilray (Hawke's Bay), M. Hunt, Mary Walker, Patricia Greenfield Brown, D. Johansson; Fly-ing-Officer F. J. McWhinnie, LieutCommander J. A. Smythe, Lieut. S. M. Almao, Lieut. J. L. Tait, Lieut. F. Charlton, Lieut. H. R. Harris, and Messrs. Lindsay Arlow, A. Gorton, Arthur Button, Kelvin Hunter, and Peter Brown. ,