Tennis Dance

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 4

Tennis Dance

GAY FUNCTION ARRANGED BY MUNICIPAL OFFICERS’ CLUB TROPHIES PRESENTED L ! The Municipal Officers' Tennis Club . | held a very jolly dance in the Town Hall concert chamber last eve nicy to L present the winners of the club matches with their trophies. Hanging baskets of fern and tubs of bamboo made the hall look particularly attra<itive, and potted palms and dwarf shrubs transformed the stage. The Versatile Pirates Orchestra was in attendance and were much appreciated. The prize-winners were: Women’s championship doubles. Miss Harris and Miss Baird: men’s championship } doubles, Air. Heard and Air. Alunro: \ championship combines. Aliss Harris and Air. J. Williams: women's championship singles, Miss Baird; men's championship singles. Air. D. J. Williams; women’s handicap doubles. Aiiss Bullians and Aliss Rennie; men's handicap doubles, Air. Heard ard Air. Alunro; handicap combines, Aliss Langford and Air. Brandon; womens handicap singles, Aliss Bullians; mens handicap singles, Air. F. Hume. THE GUESTS INCLUDED Miss Harris, wearing a gown cf periwinkle blue chenille with uneven circular skirt of georgette Mrs. O’Brien, who was in french blue taffeta piped with beige. Airs. ATottingham, whose shell pink georgette frock was embroidered with tiny cross-stitch rosebuds. Airs. Albert Smith, in. silver lace over delphinium blue georgette, with closefitting corsage of silver lame. Aliss Rankin, who wore palest primrose georgette and crepe de chine. Aliss Dix. in a bouffant frock of amethyst taffeta with circular painted skirt in three tiers edged with lilac tulle. Aliss Davey, whose lime green chiffon frock was embroidered wiin silver beads. Aliss Marjorie Dawson, wearing a frock of black ring velvet with twotiered skirt, Aliss D. Scott, who was in a sprigged taffeta frock of pale orchid and petunia with a front panel of gold lace. Aliss Callingham, wearing the prettiest frocL of unevenly frilled i-unset georgette edged with taffeta, and slender corsage of sunset taffeta. Aliss Al. Builians, who was in cedar rose crepe de chine. FRILLED TIERS Aliss AT. AlcGrath, the scalloped hem of whose pretty pastel pink georgette frock was defined with three tiers of tiny frills. Aliss Rennie, who. had chosen peach georgette worn over /’a me satin. Miss Darvell who was in cherry ring velvet and georgette. Aliss Badger, whose canton jade georgette frock was embroidered with silver sequins. Aliss W. Darvell, iu mimosa vellow creep de chine. Aliss F. Davis, wearing cyclamen taffeta. inset with silver lace. Alias* Alina Hammond, who was in a period gown of cameo piDk taffeta with fichu of silver lace. Aliss Peggy Hammond, who wore lotuS blue chenille and silver embossed lace. Alias Dixon, whose frock of canton jade georgette was relieved with silver. Miss G-. Sevi, who wore a very pretty gown with corsage of silver lame and full skirt of apple green georgette embroidered with silver beads. CARLTON TENNIS CLUB PROGRESSIVE TOURNAMENT j large number of members and i friends, as well as representatives from other clubs, were present at an At [ Home given by the women members of the Carlton Tennis Club at the club I courts yesterday afternoon. A progressive tournament was r , Played in two sections, and in each r j case the result was a tie, the finalists drawing for th# prizes. In the A section Airs. Coldham won from Airs. ; Vipond. and in the B section Miss J. Warnock won from Aliss Hutter. Afterwards afternoon tea was served. Among those present were Airs. Armitage and Aliases Wood, Lee and • Yeoman (Mount Eden), Alesdame# Kretschmar, Goidstro and Misses Andrew, Russel, Cooper and Porter (St. Hellers), Mesdames Coldham, Howe, and Misses Darling and Bolton (Aratonga), Mesdames Huckstep and Crawford (Balmoral), .Mesdames Russel and Richards (Auckland;. Aliss Walker (Rawhiti), Aliss Henehen (St. Alary's), Mesdames Gear, Vipond, Pollard, ! Peake, Fink. AlcLred. Lucas. Johnson, I Jeffries. Alisses Hutter, Hopkins. Dalj ton. Pillinger, Kirkham, Kirkwood <2)f Warnock (2), George and Jeffries.