MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2599, 28 June 1923, Page 2

MOUTOA NOTES.

CHILDREN’S BALL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) On Thursday evening last, the Moutoa school-room, which had been transformed into a veritable fairyland by festoons of red, yellow and green with greenery, Balloons, and Chinese lanterns, presented a gay and animated scene —children dressed as fairies, bonbons, Dutch girls, follies and fisherwives, to say nothing of cowboys, footballers, princes, naval officers, and cigars, not forgetting the redoubtable Charlie Chaplin, danced polkas, barndances, Highland schottisches, waltzes, lancers, and valeta-gavottes with each other. The children really had the time of their lives, their happy faces showing plainly the thoroughness of their enjoyment. After supper the last dance was announced and the adults threw coloured streamers as the excited children danced round the hall in a net work of tangled papers, which created a very pretty effect. On behalf of the school committee Mr Green congratulated promoters of the ball for their work in connection with the function and called for applause for Mrs Hall and Mrs Davey. Prizes, accorded by vote, were given for the best dressed girl, won by Dimpy Campbell (Papper Bag). The most original girl, was won bv Phyllis Halley (Knitting Craze).

The prize for the best dressed boy was won by Jim Campbell (Prince Charming).

The prize for the most original costume (boy) was won by Colin Campbell (Papper Bag). The costumes were all excellent and a credit to the mothers who showed their loyalty to the school by turning the children out so well, and turned up under such unfavourable weather conditions. The following is the list of the costumes worn: —

Verner Pigott, Folly: Alison Campbell, Belgian Peasant; Grace Blair, Daffodil; Minne Lampp, Queen of Hearts; Nita Pigott, Powder Puff; Annie Gregory, Japanese Girl; Dimpy Campbell, Bon-bon; Phyllis Halley, Knitting Craze; Eileen Sutton, Japanese Girl; Dulcie Boswell, French Fish Wife; Nory Bagnall, Bride; Phyllis Boswell, Fairy; Jean Campbell, Red Tape; Marie Triggell, Auckland Weekly; Ruby Livingstone, Spring; Cecil Bagnall, Work Basket; Peggy Aitken. Dutch Girl: Lizzie Rauhiki. Crimson Rambler; Lindsay Treggell Sugar Shortage;Charlie Eder, Western Cowboy; Ernest Hall, Quaker, Eddie Blair, Charlie Chaplin: Alex Gregory, Chinaman (Wah Shing), Eddie Eder, Night and Day; Bruce Boswell, Robinson Crusoe; Kelvin Green, Naval Ollicer; Rex Aitken, Footballer: Selwyn Spring, Cigar, Jim Campbell, Prince Charming: Gilbert Halley, Ace of Hearts; Keith Halley, Cigar; Vincent Eder, Old English; Colin Campbell, Paper Bag; Leslie Piggott (age 2 years), Snow Ball; Quentin Thompson (1 1/2 years), Kewpie.