CARNIVAL NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1325, 17 November 1914, Page 3

CARNIVAL NOTES.

All hail the queen ! The excitement connected with the voting contest is passed. Little Bertha Gower “kicked the beam” with 6171 votes, Bertha’s votes represent £77 3s. Hooray ! That this candidate deserves the honour who will deny ?

Then followed little Lylla Robinson with 3,421 votes, representing worked harder in the cause of the candidates than Mr Peter Robinson and he set ’ the pace for the other competitors. All hail Lylla !

Phyllis Greig was responsible for 2,617 votes, representing ,£32 14s 3d —a splendid record.

Isie Patterson’s committee of young ladies created a good deal of enthusiasm and the 1,890 votes they piled up was a fine effort, representing 12s 6d. Well done Isie !

Marcia Small, though last on the list is by no means a small individual effort and the amount represented by her 333 votes, viz., £4. 3s 3d, will give her the satisfaction of knowing that her name will provide 333 meals for 333 little Belgium children.

Every one is satisfied with the flutter and Foxton is to be congratulated upon its splendid response of /180 8s 3d for this one item in the carnival. Who says Foxton is behind the times ?

Several hundred people, tuned up with excitement and expectation, waited outside the Herald Office, to see the results posted up. The Borough Band played a programme of music which passed away the time while the returning officer and scrutineers performed their wearisome task of counting and checking the 14i433 votes. At about 9.15 the results were made known. The number ot votes recorded and the cash represented fairly staggered the crowd. It was a foregone conclusion among a large section of the crowd that Lylla Robinson would win, but the unexpected happened. Cheers were given tor Mr Fraser who initiated the event and supervised it and to Messrs Bell and Phillips who assisted him at the count. Thanks were also accorded Mr Hornblow for assistance rendered.

Everyone is looking forward with pleasurable anticipation to the Floral Carnival to-morrow— Foxton’s record-breaking event. The Carnival grew out of a suggestion to hold a children’s ball ; then followed another suggestion, a picture show cigarette and lollie selling function. But the Carnival idea caught on and eclipsed all opposition, and the consummation to-morrow is going to justify the idea.

The whole affair will wind up with the coronation in the Town Hall in the evening to be followed by a fine picture programme.

The Borough Council is giving the net proceeds of the picture entertainment to the fund.

The Carnival Committee is indebted to the Council for endorsing its resolutions in reference to the charges for the evening entertainment, viz., is to all parts of the house, children half-price, reserved seats 3d extra. There’s bound to be a bumper house.

' Main Street was very lively on Saturday night. Mr Hornblow’s services were engaged to harangue the crowd and to scoop in the dollars at a Dutch auction. He realised over £5 in the disposal of a model cottage made by Horace Read.

Mr Peter Robinson’s strolling minstrels secured a fine collection for the purchase of votes for one of the queen candidates.

On the eve o£ the Floral Fete, which has been organised for the relief of the poor of Belgium, we take this last opportunity of asking the community to endeavour to make it a great success. Many of our citizens have worked unsparingly and enthusiastically in making all the arrangements. It would be invidious to mention any by name, for all who attended the public meetings in connection with the event, and many besides, have done magnificent work.

We appeal to every citizen to attend the Fete as a matter of dvtq, not altogether of pleasure. The law of life is the law of sacrifice, and we should make the greatest sacrifice we can as a sign of thankfulness to that wonderful little nation which has sacrificed its manhood and country in the cause of national honour. Keep before your eyes the scene of desolate homes, thousands of widows and orphans, the deeds of shame that fill us with horror, the capital in the possession of the enemy, their works of art and glorious buildings destroyed by a ruthless nation of vandals. And all this might have been avoided.

Citizens, realise and fulfil your duty ’. Recognise, and help to the greatest extent of your power, the glorious deeds and immense suffering of Belgium. Make an effort that will be worthy of Foxton, so that your children in years to come may say, J‘We are citizens of no mean city.

Mr Andrew Jonson is not to be left out in the gift line to the Belgian Fund. He has donated a picture ot the battleship New Zealand, framed in oak, to be disposed of as the committee think fit.

The guessing for Mr G. T. Woodroofe’s sheep closed on Saturday night. The she'ep turned the scale at lbs. The following guessed the exact weight: Messrs W. de Ridder, H. Heather, H, C. Patterson, and J. O’Reilly. The guess money totalled 10s.

An event which should create a good deal of interest and excitement will be the motor car potato spearing competition. Cars will be driven past small heaps of potatoes and these heaps have to be speared (left handed) as the car proceeds along. A time limit is allowed in which to complete the distance. Mr Stan. Austin is in charge of this event and the entrance fee is one shilling.

Before you return from the Carnival to-morrow evening, see that you secure a few postcards ot the event to take home. With the aid of a nice sunny day, Messrs E. Huntley and Reg. Barber intend to get busy and break the record for time in postcard production, and to this end are making the necessary preparations. The proceeds will be added to the Carnival takings. To-morrow, spare a thought for those in the dark-room, and reserve a “bob” for souvenirs. Obtainable on racecourse, and at Town Hall in the evening.

Mrs Greig is going to entertain the seventeen candidates who were entered for the juvenile carnival queen competition at a garden party at her home on Saturday afternoon at 2.15 o’clock. Will the candidates please take this intimation, as an opportunity may not be afforded to see the little ones personally by Mrs Greig. It is hoped all the candidates will turn up and have a good time.

Treasurer Bell acknowledges 6s sale of miniature flags from Mr Gabites.

Gilts are coming in freely for the produce stall, sweet stall and tea rooms.

The procession to-morrow bids fairs to clipse anything ever before seen in Foxton. The decorated vehicles, ponies, bicycles, motor cars, and push carts will make a display long to be remembered.

Don’t wait to pay at the gates, purchase your admission tickets now. It will save contusion and prevent delay.

Mr Perreau is disposing of the wedding cake, per medium of a guessing competition. * * *

The school will be closed all day to-morrow for the carnival. * * *

The various committees in charge ot the stalls and tea rooms report that arrangements are well forward.

The committees met at the racecourse on Saturday afternoon and conferred with the caretaker and club officials and arranged for the disposition of the several departments.

The coronation committee will meet at the Town Hall this evening and arrange the tableau.

Mr Bell, treasurer of the Carnival Fund, asks us to remind all who have promised donations to the fund to be kind enough to hand same to him on or before tomorrow night.

Hoorah ! Read this. We received a telephone message irom Mr W. Renton, manager of the Barber Estate, Himatangi, this afternoon, stating that the estate had decided to give a three-year-old Shetland pony to the Belgium Fund to be disposed of as the committee thought fit. The pony will be at the carnival to-morrow when the method of its disposal will be made known. Hats off to the Barber Estate !