GUY FAWKES NIGHT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 7 November 1939, Page 4

GUY FAWKES NIGHT

FIREWORKS CARNIVAL

SUCCESSFUL EFFORT

ATTENDANCE OF 4000

Although some disorganisation was occasioned through the change from Saturday to Monday night for the Gisborne Thirty-Thousand Club’s Guy Fawkes celebrations at the Waikanae Beach, last evening’s carnival programme was staged with a large measure of success and the patronage extended to the fixture was most gratifying to the officials.

The attendance was not as great as that at last year’s effort, when 5000 people gathered on the waterfront, but the officials were confident that had the- weather on Saturday night been favourable for an out-door function that evening a record crowd 1 would have been seen at the beach. However, the gate takings showed that 2000 adults paid for admission, and it was estimated that a similar number of children were present. Excellent business was done at the sideshows otganjsed by the returned soldiers and it was believed that the ton-1 proceeds would not be far short of last year’s

Colourful Rockets Jn comparison with Saturday's bleak conditions, last evening proved a mild one and admirably suited for :he fireworks display and open-air concert. A dense column of smoke rising from a large bonfire at >.he end of Grey street and a succession , 1 colourful rockets greeted the visiters to tho beach. The large crowd lined the edge of the promenade to witness the exhibition, which included a vaviety of fireworks.

A competition for the best turnedout “guy” held early in the evening produced some remarkable effigies and the children who entered the best representations were: Master J. Monk, 1; Miss J. and Master Rex Sargent, 2; Miss Denys Sawyer, 3.

A concert on the stage near the tennis courts followed the fireworks display. A pleasing programme was presented by the W.E.C.M.R. Band under the baton of Lieutenant A. Wood. The variety numbers included Highland dances by Misses Alva Mahoney, Tamson Kerr and Heather Loch, to music played by Piper D. Miller; vocal solos, “Old Man River” and “Lazybones,” by Mr. D. Goldsmith; accordion solos, Messrs. F. Flemming and Cliff Smellie; whistling solos and vocal numbers to her own accompaniment at the piano, Mrs. A. C. Coleman; ballet number by members of the Operatic Society. The accompaniments were played by Mrs. Elliott.

Community Effort

Various sections of the community co-operated in the effort and the interest displayed in the fixture is shown by tire large number of organisations represented amongst the officials. Duties were allotted to representatives from the Gisborne and Poverty Bay Rowing Clubs, Young Business Men’s Club, Power Boat and Small Craft Club. Fire Brigade, railway staff, Social Security Department, Tennis Association, Native Land Court. Legion of Frontiersmen. Gis-borne-East Coast Bowling Centre, Post and Telegraph Department, Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board, Inter-house Sports Committee, Fire Police, Boy Scouts, Boxing Association, and Y.M.C.A.

Tlie entertainment concluded with a successful dance in the tea-kiosk, the music for which was provided by Stuart Sheet's orchestra.