UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT DANCE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 8, 17 July 1930, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT DANCE.

Interest in the GTand Benefit Dance to be -held in the King Geoi-ge Hall on Saturday July 26th in aid of the local Unemployment Belief Fund grows apace and coming as it does right at the peak of tb.o dancing season, thia function is already flssnred of a wonderful success. It would seem as if the unemployment problem has become > even more . acute during the past week or two, and this valient effort under the auspices of the Association Football Club affords one channel through which one and all can help to alleviate the distress, due to unemployment, being experienced by many in out midst. <

For such, a cause every penny counts and t>hc total profits of this "Benefit Danec—subsidised by the Government £ for £-^-will be expended to the very •best advantage by our Mayor. . /rhe . appeal .which, went forth, from these columns in, a recent issue, has met with, a ready. response/ the honorary secretary .reporting the receipt of quite a. number of cash donations apart from valuable, assistance in other directions. A. complete list of donations Mall, in due course, appear in this paper, and. we would again;, em.pa.size jthat.^ be y^ur contribution pence > or. pounds, it will •be greatly,. appreciated ajul promptly acicno^W'ledgQid by the. honorary secretary of Association J)?inoes-HMrs. J. Batchelor, 47 FSlmuir Street, l-ower Ijiwtt. M&Tgfc Association patrpnis will recall the '■pfTQrr.yerY fine cakes— r beatitifully is£d. a^ 4fteoj3a^d yrith UferQ, ££e^»J;ed by. M^. G^antham for an Association function last season. Mr (Jranthaia. lias very kindly expressed his intejaiipn of donating t>£o similar cakes as, ladies' prizes for the Monte Carlo dances ajt this coming Grand Benefit $figls- This most generous oser is very welcome and lucky indeed will bjs the w4nner.s of th.ese lovely cakes. To P. S.

Taylor and Son also", the Association Committee is most grateful for the assistance .being given, towards this unemployment project. Apart from giving (gratis) the broad required for sandwiches, this firm has donated a ' splendid cake, valued 25/- to be raffled for the Benefit Dance Fund. It is anticipated tth at this cake raffle ay ill augment the fund 'by quite a few pounds and whole-hearted thanks are due to P. S. Taylor and Son for. such a helpful contribution. It is pleasing to riot©--that the gift of this jeake was entirely unsolicited and therefore doiibly appre-ciated'because-of that fact The Orchestra too, is showing sympathy with this Benefit Dance in very practical form. "Roy Baker and his Melody Makers" haying, intimated their willingness to play for a much reduced fee on this occasion. The Association Gommittee is very appreciative of this conceesifln.

i Some mighit opine that this being* a Benefit Dance expenses will be so cut down as to exclude all novelties, etc., ■tout we can assure dancers that friends ?of the Association: Qlu^ are giving parjticnlar attention tot this regaxdj and j special and mirtl(:-p,ro,v9kin,g ;,a,Tce being arxawgied, ip? tljis fun^tipn. i 'ihe indications'. a?:e t^pr^foje, that 'the King' George Hall will prove to be the rendezvous of all dancers on Saturday, July 26th, and, it is ,safe to predict that, financially and socially, this Benefit Danos w^l T^e the outstanding success of the season.

Eeeent winners of handsome prizes at AssoQi?.tipn ■fortnightly Ranees are as follows:—'Misses. May Mutimer: and M. Snnter 7 Messrs I*aey Adams and P. Laneeley all of Petone; Misses B. Wood and S. Boawell, Mx M. Jones all of Lower Hutt, and IdtT. W. Taylor oj^ Auckland.