TEA TATTLE

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 16

TEA TATTLE

and SMA 1 Canny Again COMEBODY m ■ Durtedin appears to. *^ know -a good thing when he sees one. The Harbor Ferries Company have been advertising half-crown expeditions to the Island where Commander Byrd's dogs are enjoying New Zealand sunshine prior to their jaunt to the South Pole. \ And, quaintest of all, a £10 prize was offered to the holder of the 10,000 th return ticket, which seems to indicate that the city fathers have every confidence that ten thousand of their good men and true — not forgetting; the stalwart mati*6ns — will join m a scramble for ten pounds. » The dogs are extremely good and especially nice dogs and it seems but right that New Zealand should pat them good-bye. But that it should be done on so large and so profitable a scale is a notion which would only have ' occurred to those long-haired . gentlemen whb have niade bonny Scotland pay twenty shillings m the pound.

LL,T.ALK= '' Advance Alison TO be the younger sister of a lass as *• Jo Kirkcaldie (as was) must have been rather a Cinderella-ish business at times. But Jo was mai-ried, early this year, and since then Alison Kirkcaldie, daughter of the Herbert Kirkcaldies, Karori, Wellington, has been trying wings of true butterfly texture. She "came out" under the sparkling chandelier lights of Government House, and from that day forth it's been a case of quite enough parties and quite enough pals to please any maid. Now, as the Queen of Sheba, she is to take a regal -part m the Dream of Fair Women Pageant, and her costume, which is all shining feathers and golden gauze, will be highly satisfactory from all points of view. Alison, as the portrait shows, is dark- hatred, , bright-eyed, and -possessor of a pretty smile, which will be used with much effect on Nubian slaves and: captive dancing-girls m her pageant tableaux. L