BALL AT KOMATA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4424, 7 June 1922, Page 4

BALL AT KOMATA.

A SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. The weather conditions on Friday evening last were anything but promising f?or visitors intending to come to the Komata Reefs ball. However, a fair attendance was present, and all those who ventured out were quite satisfied with the night's amusement. It was evident from the expressions of admiration from visitors that trie painstaking efforts of the committee to make the decorations as fine as anyone could wish werp not in vain. Beautiful nikau leaves, punga ferns, festoons of- lycopodium, flags, and flowers, and pot-plants kindly loanby Miss G. Simpson, combined to I give a strikingly effective scheme of I decorations. The flobr was in excellent order, and well repaid the work expended on it. Miss T. Ardern and Ift. W. Ardern discoursed excellent music, extras being played by Mrs. Ryan. The dancing was well patronised and the floor wafe just pleasantly crowded, there being a slight preponderance 'of. men present. The appointments in the supper room were carried out in the same lavish style as ip the hall, the walls being decorated with nikau and the tables decked with flowers, early narcissus, blue mountain bell, violas, arum lilies, and sprays of ivy and variegated holly being conspicuous. Groat difficulty was experienced in boiling the water on such an inclement a night,* but the quality of the supper was distinctly high. The fol-> lowing is a summary of the dresses worn by the ladies, and which added the bright colour and finishing touches to a truly gorgeous spectacle: Miss Clark, emerald green, black overdress ; Miss Shaw, cerise crepe de chine ; Miss Ardern, emerald green blouse, black skirt; Miss Preece, white net. over cream silk, pink sash, Miss Z Benney, light blue voile; Miss H. Waite, blue satin trimmed with white silk; Miss I. Simpson, lemoncoloured silk ; Miss G. Simpson, white crepe de chine; Miss K. McCormack, old rose voile; Miss K. Patterson, tussore silk; Miss E. Patterson, blue voile.