Golf Notes

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 12

Golf Notes

Postponed from Tuesday ;•!) account of the 'men’s open tournamc'.rt, an L.G.U. medal match engaged the attention of the members of the Poverty Bay Ladies’ Golf Chib yesterday afternoon.

Weather Conditions were pleasant, despite a threatening morning, and the course was in excellent order.

The best card in the A division was returned by Mrs. Eadc, 91-18-73, and Mrs. Collett, 93-20-73, secured first place in the B division. Honours in the match for unqualified players, held yesterday morning, were annexed by Mrs. B. R. U. Burke. Visitor Entertained

On Thursday night, Mrs. L. Balfour, Poverty Bay provincial commissioner of Girl Guides, invited the commissioners and guiders of the Gisfcorr." district to her home in Fox street to meet a fellow-guider, Miss Creed Meredith, principal of the Narowal Mission School, Punjab, India, who is at present on furlough. The drawing-room was gay with spring bulbs and primroses, and a large fire warmed the room. Miss Meredith gave a most interesting talk on life in general and Guiding in particular in India and also answered many questions. Mrs. Balfour thanked the visitor, on behalf of those present. A delicious supper was served informally. Gipsy Fair

Te Parish Hall, Derby street, presented an animated scene on Wednesday afternoon, when the members of the Ist Gisborne Girl Guide Company held a very successful “Gipsy Fair,” to raise funds for sunshine work. Advantageously placed stalls offered for sale all manner of wares, and diverting competitions provided entertainment in variety.

A well-patronised Punch and Judy show, always a delight to both young and old, .was among the attractions. Stall-holders included: Misses K. I-len’derson, I. Rhodes, and T. Smale, sweets; Misses F. McKinley and T. Hitchener, lucky dip; Misses C. Gilmer. S. Gascoyne and J. McKay, flowers; Misses A. McKinley, and Y. Thompson, novelties; Misses L. Quigley, iB. and J. Ellmers, L. Coleman and B. 'Bean, afternoon tea; Misses S. McFadyen, J. Gray, B. Lockwood, J. Moore, B. Tuke, J. ’ Gribben, M. Redstone and N. Harrison, competitions; Mrs. Dyer and Miss B. O’Meara, Punch and Judy show.

Festive Scene at Radio Ball Nothing in the world is more cheerful than a children’s fancy dress party, and the Radio Ball held in the City Hall on Thursday night proved that “dressing up” is still one of the best treats of all. Tire function was organised to raise funds to purchase a new piano for the 2ZM children’s studio, and that the object was popular was evidenced by the attendance of approximately 700 children and adults. No detail had been overlooked in the preparations, and the organising committee, comprising Mr. Cornish, chairman. Messrs. Scott and Fleming, joint secretaries, and Messrs. Smith, Vosper, Stevens, Bradfield and Wallace, had ample reason to feel gratified at tire result of their efforts.

As a prelude to the function a children’s session was conducted on the stage by “Uncle Les” and “Aunt Daisy,” and a number of enjoyable items were broadcast.

Very Large Attendance

Filled to overflowing 'with a merry throng of revellers, the ballroom presented a festive scene, gay decorations completing the carnival effect. A canopy of green and crimson streamers was suspended overhead, and posters of filmland adorned the wall spaces, shaded lights shedding a soft glow upon the attractive scene. The stage was flanked on either side with a realistic broadcasting aerial, and further enhanced with black draperies emblazoned in glittering silver, with the call signal of the station, 2ZM.

Assembled for the grand march, the little ones wheeled and turned in a great procession that included sailors and soldiers, elves and fairies, gipsies and princesses, pirates and cowboys. The children had the floor until 9.30 p.m., when the arrangements were changed, and the ball was continued for adults.

For this part ot fhe programme Mr. R. Bardwell carried out the duties of M.C. Stuart Skeet’s orchestra supplied the music, extras being contributed by the piano-accordion band.

The children danced to the strains of well-known melodies played by Mrs. Goldsmith. und Mr. L. Scott supervised the floor.

Gay Decorations

Streamers of every hue, inter mingled with Chinese lanterns, fluttered in the supper room, and the tables, laden with all manner of good things, were decked with spring flowers, Iceland poppies and jonquils predominating in the artistic decorative scheme.

The energetic committee of ladies responsible for these arrangements comprised Mesdames F. Gribben, R. Haywood, M. Edwards, J. Wyllie, J. Sutton, G. Nelson, E. Quinn, G. Williamson, W. Craill, A. Livingston, J. Pearce, E. Holden, C. Smith, McErlain, A. C. Coleman, and Wilson, and Misses D. Pearce, J. Gribben and A Goldsmith.

Commendable ingenuity 'both in design and execution was displayed in the costuming, and the judges, Mesdames W. A. Bowie and G. I. Parker, were faced with a difficult task in making the following awards:— Fancy dresses, —Children’s section: Hilda Richards, Yvonne Davey, Betty and Shirley Reid, Nessie Waugh, Dawn Marsh and Stan Hooper. Adult section, —best representation of a popular song hit —Mr. Nugent Anderson and party (Alexander’s Ragtime Band), 1; Miss Anderson and Miss Maynard (Song of the Mounties), 2. Mrs. Bowie was wearing an elegant frock of black cellophane lace accented with touches of Parma violet, and Mrs. Parker looked smart in a frock of black cloque ornamented with diamante clips.

Tolaga Bay Military Ball Outstanding success attended the Military Ball held in Tolaga Bay on Thursday evening, the attendance almost overflowing the Reynolds Hall, and including a number of patrons from Gisborne.

The function was organised on behalf of the Tolaga Bay troop of the East Coast Mounted Rifles by Mrs. O. G. James, with the assistance of a number of other residents, and members of the troop and other units of the defence forces were present in uniform. Flags draped the stage and body of the hall, and the chaperons’ lodge was a bower of bunting and flowers. Mrs. Thomson’s orchestra provided the music, and Mr. O. G. James carried out the duties of M.C.

A delicious supper was served by a ladies’ committee, on tables decorated by Miss U. MacDonald with spring flowers.

Those present included Major and Mrs. G. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ames, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Gordon (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. A. Donald, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. G. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fraser, Mr. and- Mrs. J. M. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop, Mr. and Mrs. Irving, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. Ballard, Mr. and Mrs. Watt, Mr. and Mrs. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. Menzies, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. O. G.

James, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead.

Mesdames De Montalk, B. Lincoln, Thornton, W. Oakden, S. Martin, Wright, D. Kutia, Hooper, Higham, L. Lawrence, Holmes, Sharp, Bullard, Nelson, Bradley, W. Mitchell, Craill, Stre'ch, Gordon, Weeks, G. Utting, Baker, Hutchinson (Gisborne), F. Lawrance, Hyde, and J. Morris.

Misses Wells (Gisborne), Chesney (Christchurch), Patterson (Gisborne), Reid, J. Donald, E. de Montalk, Margaret Fraser, B. Glasgow (Gisborne), E. Elliot (Gisborne), F. White (Gisborne), N, James (Gisborne), M. Thornton, F. Tuhiuri, S. Marino, J. Kutia, M. Tumatahi, M. Burney, P. Oaken (Gisborne), P. Laing, U. MacDonald, K. Mullany, Norma O’Connor, E. and J. McNamara, M. Lockwood, R. and T. Nelson, D. Shaw, R. Simpson, D. Dunlop, B. Cranswick, B. Blowes, P. Weeks, E. Smith, J. and K. Mclntosh, E. Warner (Gisborne), and P. Cleary (Gisborne).

Messrs. T. and I. Craill, B. Morris, E. Loisel, O. and I. James, W. and H. Holmes (Gisborne), H. and J. Irving, D. McNeil, G. Mclntosh, T. Cranswick, T. Hutchinson, R. and D. Fraser, H. Maude, Thompson, Captain Smith (Tokomaru Bay), Messrs. T. Long, B. Cowan, Parry, J. Humphrey, F. Thompson, and A. H. Miller (Gisborne).

Visitors to the World Fair

There have been many hundreds of New Zealand visitors to the Dominion Pavilion at the World Fair, New York, states a correspondent of the New Zealand News. They included Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nash, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Langstone, Sir James and Lady Parr, Mrs. David Nathan and her daughter, Mrs. L. Posner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laidlaw, Mr. and Mrs. G. V/. Allsop (who have been travelling around the world in their caravan for two years, and are now on their way home), Miss Violet Greig and Miss N. E. Coad, Wellington, Mr. George Billson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Findlay, Mrs. Howard Ackroyd Kelly, and her son, Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Tomlinson, Hastings.

Women’s Club Spring- Flower Display

Spring in all its glory filled the Gisborne Women’s Club yesterday afternoon, when the club gardening circle held a successful display of flowers. The spacious lounge presented a oerfect riot of colour, a wealth cf daffodils, hyacinths, cyclamen, stocks, freesias. primroses, calendulas, Iceland poppies, violets, camellias, nemesia linaria, anemones., arum lilies and oar)pies vicing with each other in loveliness.

The entries this year were large, and the quality of the exhibits was of an exceptionally high standard. The staging was excellently carried ut. permitting visitors a comprehen ;ive view of the artistic whole, and enabling each section to be examined at close range.

A produce stall, under the charge of Mesdames D. McKeague, E. T. Doddrell and A. R. Perry, was well patronised, the attractive 'wares finding ready purchasers.

A delicious afternoon tea was served Informally by the members of the committee.

Much of the credit for the success achieved undoubtedly was due to the efforts of the president, Mrs. A. R. Perry, the convener, 'Mrs D. McKeague, and the secretary, Mrs. A. Ingram, who had overlooked no detail in the preparations for the occasion. Among the exhibitors were Mesdames A. iR. Perry, D. McKeague, A. Ingram, R. Hepburn, C. H. Seymour, W. G. Alexander, F. R. Hill, J. R. Samson, H. Holmes, E. T. Doddrell, Foster, W. M. Jenkins and Miss J. Foster. Queen of Holland

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, who initiated with/ . King Leopold o:f Belgium, another effort to sercure a peaceful solution of the European crisis, celebrated her fifty-ninth birthday on Thursday, haviing been born on August 31, 1880. She. succeeded her father, King William 111,

Queen Wilhelmina

when she was 10 years of age. In 1901, she married Prince Henry, Prince of the Netherlands, who died in 1934. The heir to the Throne is Princess Juliana, who married Prince Bernhard of Lieppe-Biesterfeld in 1937. There are two daughters.

Turange Croquet Club Card Party

Complete success attended the second of the series of card parties held by the Turanga Croquet Club in Le Grand Cafe on Thursday night for the benefit of its funds.

The spacious reception room, so admirably adapted to such an occasion, looked very inviting with its decorations of shaded Iceland poppies and spring bulbs. Eight tables of bridge and four of five-hundred were requisitioned. Honours for bridge were secured by Mrs. Steed, and Mrs. A. F. Salmon emerged the winner of the hidden number competition.

The prize for the highest score for five-hundred was won by Mrs. W. M. Jenkins, Mi’s. Wilson gaining second place. At the conclusion of play a delicious supper was served informally. It was announced that the final party of the series would take place on October 5. The committee responsible for the successful organisation of the function included the president of the club, Mrs. A. J. Barnard, who was wearing an elegant frock of multi-coloured floral satin with a black velvet coatee, Mrs. F. E. Ormiston, who wore a graceful gown of black ring velvet, and Mrs. W. M. Jenkins, who looked smart in a georgette frock printed in a floral design in pastel tonings. Among the players were Mesdames Pycroft, Evans, W. F. lies, W. J. Sinclair, MoncriefT, A. F. Salmon, R. W. J. Edwards, J. Olliver, H. D. Humphrey, Wilson, Henderson, McKenzie, Bayliss, T. Wilson, L. ¥. Sarten, G. Ansell, Ingram, Steed, F. Tolerton, Harrison, Mahoney, L. Williams, Simpson,- Dixon, Philpotts, Maddock, M. Lawless, Zafi'er, Jackson, Pulley, V. Ansell, Petchell, Heard, J. McKee, Rutherford, Benny, Beattie, Cortroy, Mossman, Gray, Lome, Kayes, Nasmith, J. S. Wauchop; Misses Hyett and Sparkes.