CARNIVAL SPIRIT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 5

CARNIVAL SPIRIT

NEW YEAR'S WELCOME WAIKANAE BEACH GALA BIG PATRIOTIC EFFORT The indications of a return of real holiday weather have given the utmost satisfaction to the social committee of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers’ Association, affecting as they do the prospects of the beach gala to be held to-morrow evening at Wajkana<i. Arrangements are so well ahead, and so extensive, that a postponement forced by unfavourable weather would mean a great disappointment The carnival, which will continue from 7 p.m. until midnight, will comprise programmes of dancing, platform items, games and skill, and a display of fire-works to mark the approach of 1940 and the imminent dawn of the centennial year. Functions held at the Waikanae Beach during recent years have been splendidly patronised by the public, and the Returned Soldiers' Association committee believes that it will be able to surpass the attendance and financial records of those functions. The whole of the proceeds of. the carnival are to be devoted to patriotic purposes, and it says much for the spirit of the ex-servicemen that, with so many claims on the funds of the association for the relief of distress among returned soldiers, they should have-also the interests of the soldiers of to-day so much at heart.