BALL AT NGATEA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4858, 27 July 1925, Page 2

BALL AT NGATEA.

FACTORY EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT. BRILLIANT SUCCESS ATTAINED. Of all the social functions held bn the Plains the annual ball organised by the employees of the N.Z. Co-opera-tive Dairy Company’s Ngatea factory is recognised as the most lavish. Each year its enviable reputation is enhanced as its organisers seek to improve on their previous efforts. Nothing in the way of time, energy, or money is spared to ensure patrons having ,an enjoyable time, and nothing is left to chance except the weather. Were it possible to foretell this thq annual ball would not have been held on Thursday evening, as with boisterous wind and heavy driving rain, and the district anticipating another flooding through the continual downpour, there was little inducement to venture out of doors, no. matter how great the attraction. Howevei, the attendance was nearly a, hundred couples, and it is safe to say that everyone present did not regret braving the elements.

Although there is little scope for new ideas in decorative schemes for halls when only the same old materials are available, those responsible for the decorations achieved an effect that won the admiration of all present. A veritable ceiling was made of* coloured paper streamers and punga fonds, vdiile the walls were robbed of their bareness by masses of greenery. Many coloured lights, were used, and the scene made has probably never been equalled in Ngatea. The floor was in good order, and good dance music was contributed by Mr A. Williams’ Jazzarama Band. Supper was served at intervale in Mr J. E. Reid’s engineering shop, alongside the hall, where seating accommodation had been provided for some fifty couples.