COMBINED EX-GIRLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24401, 12 September 1940, Page 11

COMBINED EX-GIRLS

SERVICE GROUP’S DANCE Despite the economy with which the Combined Ex-girls’ Service Group planned its dance on Tuesday night there was nothing inadequate about any of the arrangements The resultant funds will be devoted to war purposes. The Crawford Lounge, simply but effectively decorated with tall baskets of flowering currant and spring flowers was a fitting background for a number of lovely evening gowns. As an interlude the many dancers were entertained with choruses by five members of the R.N.Z.A.F., and other diversions were a Monte Carlo and a lucky spot competition, the winners being Miss McLellan and Mr Ballantyne, and Miss Wilson and Mr Gibson respectively. During the third last dance the throng made merry with paper snowballs painted red, white and blue. Supper was served buffet fashion.

The president received her guests wearing a gown of del blue shot taffeta with an overskirt of embroidered net in the same shade. The members of the executive, which was responsible for the dance arrangements, are Mrs Spencer Secular (vice-president), who wore blue lace and a shoulder spray of pink*and blue velvet flowers: Mrs J. Mooney, in tinsel-threaded Parma satin; Miss Audrey Adams, grapecoloured shot taffeta and corsage spray of cherry blossom; Miss Phyllis Duke, black frock and bolero, spray of gold flowers: Miss Audrey Meek (registrar), turquoise velvet, with silver and rose velvet bows; Miss Alice Gregg (assistant registrar), midnight blue, taffeta and diamente; and Miss Patricia Duncan (secretary), shrimp pink silk taffeta and black lace coatee. Others present were Mr and Mrs

Cecil B. Lewis, Mr and Mrs J. G. Macfarlane (Christchurch), and Mr arid Mrs Neilson. Misses Joan Tennent, Patricia McCracken, Dorothy Armit, Joyce Donaldson, Joyce Lane, Mollie Wood, Cecile Jones, Joy Smith, Joan E. Shackleton, L, McCracken. J. Thomson. Elza McMullon, Judith Galloway. Elsa Jury. Connie Lee. Dorothy E. Webb, H. Thomson. Betty McCracken, Yvonne Dennisk .. R. Wilson. Lorraine Armstrong. Daphne Morrison, Claire Robertson, Beatrice Jury, Audrey McLean, June Reid (Palmerston North), Joyce Rowley, Lesley Gunn, Alison Bell, Helen Price, Moyra Bevis, Kate Evans, C. Hinchcliff, Natalie Creagh, Romola Sparrow, Joy Ferens, Joan Talbot, Rosslyn Brown, K. Sheddan. Nancy Taylor. Mary Ellen Kilroy, Patricia Blackie, Marie McCallion Claire Stevenson, V. Gunn, Sidney Fache, Jacqueline Fraser, Mary Fraser. Jean Caldow, Mildred Scorgie, Barbara Mitchell, Patricia Fraser. Nance McLellan. Maura Toomey, Rhondda Creagh. Nola McAdam, Ngaire Skinner Alva Williamson, and Patricia Bevis. Messrs F Duncan, R. Partridge, J. Learman, R. Berry. C. Heydon, J. W. Steel, F. G. Lane, L. Shackleton, I. Houston, A. Blampied, C. N. B. French, K. Hardy, McLean, N, Ackroyd, H. L Gibson. H. T. Lusk. H. T. Pearse. J, Hendy, R. Coulter.' - Higgins. D. Rees Jones, J. McPhail. J. Nicholson. J. Easton, J. Hanson, F. Kennedy, R. Holmden, I. C. Rowe, J. Patterson. T Brent, W. Clark, S. Lambert. T. Manson, A. Richards. C. B. Lewis, R. Anderson. J. Kilpatrick, A, Stevenson. M. McKenzie. O. Marshall', L. Baker, W R. Young. N. Fairclough. W. Meek. R. Martin, W. Ballantyne, B. Cameron. J. Faris, K. Skinner, J. Valentine, I. Prisk. and K. McAdam,