CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2471, 24 August 1922, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) Dear Sir, —May I crave for a little space in your valuable medium to contradict the opening sentence in the report of the Tennis Club Ball, .appearing in your last Saturday’s issue of the Herald. In doing -o 1 must admit that financially it was a great success and perhaps as far as Foxton is concerned it was the best attended ball ever held. I must, however, take exception to the manner in which the programme was run. From all appearances it catered primarily and solely for the chosen few, as they were constantly Initiating the Fox Trot and the One Step. During the fantastic promenades the gentiles who paid the piper sat lamenting. The catering on the ether hand was most- disappointing. In a ball one would naturally expect to see an overplus of crockery even if one did not see much edibles, but they were both conspicuous by their absence. There is a report current that two ladies who patronised the ball are suffering from indigestion caused by swallowing the card board spoons they had to use for the purpose of communicating the fruit salad to their masticating machines. In an affair of this kind the matter of giving introductions is very vital and •>n the evening many visiting ladies went away without participating in the goods owing to the want of a little care. However, the Tennis Club runs its own affairs on conservative lines and I am confident that- success will be very remote in ihe future. Thanking you, Mr Editor, for your valuable space, 1 am, etc., . / FOX TROT.