SCHOOL DANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 273, 13 July 1932, Page 7

SCHOOL DANCE

SHIELD PRESENTED. On Saturday evening the Opotiki District High School pupils entertained their visitors from Tauranga, Te Puke, and Whakatane at a dance held in the Lyric Hall. "The rqpm^was decorated in the difierent school. colours, black and yellow (Whakatane), black and light blue (Taurangi), red and black (Te Puke), black dn'd white (Opotiki). Shields bearing ih'e name of each school were hung aroujid 'the walls. The Gaiety orchestra supplied the. music, and a delightful sit-down supper was provided. *" A large number were present, there being over one hundred visitors • as well as parents and old. pupils (wh'o were h'elping with the billetihg.) The headmasters of Opotiki, - Te Puke and Tauranga congratulat'ed Whakatane for their popular'wfn, and Mr. Bell (headmaster of Tauranga, the previous holders of the Lshxeld) h'anded the trophy over to the two Whakatane captains, Miss N. Haultairc ' and Mr. C. Francis. Mr. Bell spoke of the great success of the t'ournaments, which, uhtil four years . a go, were only one-day affairs. He -recalled the fact that Mr. Burton • (late headmaster of the Opotiki .H.H.S.)*, had been instrumental in starting the week-end tournament, thus combihing the social and the sports' events. -This was now the fifth time that the tournaments had been run on this method and it had proved far the best of the series. Mr. P. B. Burton, who had come from Auckland . the previous day, stressed the fact that his wholehearted interest was with the B.O.F. tournaments. He also congrattdabed Whakatane and said that he liad waited many years to see them win the shield. Mr. V. J. Cooke, a master at" Opotiki High School, was then called upon to make a speech, but stated that he found it easier to give a song. At the request of Mr. Wilcox, representative of the Tauranga D.H.iS,, Mr. Cooke sang an Italian song and, on being encored, "Feniculi-Fenicula." Tbs headmster of Whakatane School suitably replied to the congratulations on behalf of the Whakatane pupils. The evening was brought to a close with much cheering and the singing of Auld Lang Syne and "For They are Jolly Good Fellows."