TOKOROA.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 13, 10 January 1924, Page 3

TOKOROA.

A benefit dance to a local family who have suffered much from ill health-driven in the local hall during the Christmas season by the Tokoroa Moonlight Club. The dance was well patronised, with the result that the club handed £4 to the beneficiaries. while the hall trustees also remitted to them direct the hall hire, £1 lOs, making a total of £5 10s. This, with the pleasure the dance gave, is considered a happy result. The music • for the evening was played by Mrs. Sloper (piano), while extra dances were played on the aecordeon by Messrs. C. Conn and A. Forbes. On Boxing Day the club held a *-picnic at the pine grove against the creek at Matanuka by kind permission of the manager of Matanuka, Mr. Williams. The outing was well enjoyed by all who took part. Another Christmas celebration was held in the local hall on Christmas Eve, when the Tokoroa School Committee gave a Christmas tree party to the children of the local school. The Christmas tree, laden with things that delight the heart of the young folk, formed the central attraction, each child receiving fre >m it a gift, but a programme of carol singing by the children. a recitation by Mr. Whitmore James, and dancing' to music played by Mesdames Fryer and Sloper, made the occasion a jovial one and well worthy of this Yuletide evening to both children and adults. At the leap year dance in the hall on New Year's Night a happy incident was the presentation of a Dickenswaro butter dish to Mrs. Sloper by the young ladies of the district as an expression of appreciation of her kindness to them in acting as pianist sat the dances, etc. The presentation was evidently such a complete surprise to Mrs. Sloper that it left her quite unable to express her thanks. Something of an adventure with a herd bull was experienced by Mr. J. Campbell, manager for the Matarawa Land Co., and one of his stockmen, Mr. C. Sunday, on Friday. The bull, a Shorthorn, had transferred himself without permission from one of the company s herds to another, and evidently resented the attempts of the stockman and Mr. Campbell to drive linn back. The result was that he chanted them and gashed their horses. Fortunately both men escaped Without injury, an d the horses, although badly hurt, were not seriously injured. The bull was ultimately rounded up and transferred back to his rightful herd, but not until be had been dehorned. Among those present at the leap year dance were:—Misses Williams black satin and georgette; Goldsburv old rose satin and gold lace; Lock’ smoke blue georgette; Sloper, green satin and radium lace; C. Sloper, ruby satin and georgette; Ashworth’ emerald crepe de chine and gold’ Chandler, white silk; Bird, helio organdie; Milne, blue organdie; M. Milne, helio organdie; Sloss (Christchurch). blue jersey silk: M. Sloss (Christchurch), green taffeta silk; Watkins (Putaruru), pink shot taffeta silk; 1. Watkins (Putaruru), black net and flame satin; Tomalin (Putaruru), black radium lace; Johnston (Christchurch), black crepe de chine. The hall was decorated with greenery and coloured streamers, with a large bell in the centre. The music was -played by Mrs. Sloper (piano) and Mr K. Lilly (violin), and extras by Miss Sloss, Mr. Chandler and Mr. C. ■Conn. ■ ■<*« F