QUEEN CARNIVAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 4

QUEEN CARNIVAL

campaign for navy CANDIDATE GALA SPORTS STREET PARADE. ARRANGED FOR SATURDAY EVENING. Practically every sports club in Masterton will, it is hoped, be represented m the Gala Sports Street Parade, with which the candidature of the Navy Queen. Miss .Audrey Burling, is to be launched on Saturday evening. At a- well attended meeting of the Navy Queen Committee last night, arrangements for the street parade, to be followed by a dance, were discussed fully, together with other plans for furthering .Miss Burling’s campaign. The procession was timed to leave Wagg’s corner at 7.45 o'clock on Saturday evening and would proceed via Queen Street to the Municipal Hall, where a festival dance was to be held. Each sports club would be represented in the street procession by a decorated float. Rugby, racing, athletics, harriers, cricket, tennis, golf, swimming, coursing, hockey, bowling, badminton, basketball, gun. table tennis, rifle and croquet clubs, it was expected, would each be represented in the procession. Mr H. L. Esau was appointed marshal of the parade, and the following is his committee: —Messrs O. Berry, J. Bradbury. V. Welch. G. Peterson and F. Morton. ARMY QUEEN NEW WORKERS ENROLLED. ACTIVITIES BY LADIES.

A largo number of new workers were enrolled, ineluding many ladies, at a meeting of the Army Queen Committee. held last night. The ladies decided to hold independent meetings, the first to take place next Monday at 7 p.m,, in the lobby of the Municipal Hall Perry Street entrance. All ladies who are keen to assist the candidature of the Army Queen are asked to attend next Monday's meeting, as tasks are available for a large number of workers. Mr S. V. Gooding is still soliciting entries for the marble championship, which is to start on Wednesday. February 12. and will continue the following Wednesday. A handsome and most unusual trophy has been donated for presentation to the winner. NURSING SERVICES FURTHERANCE OF CAMPAIGN. MEETING TOMORROW EVENING. The members of the Y.M.C.A. Directorate, Ladies' Auxiliary. Optimist Club and lads attending the Y.M.C.A. are reminded of the meeting to be held in the rooms tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock, when ways and means of assisting the Patriotic £l.OOO 000 Campaign and furthering the interest of the Nursing Services Queen. Miss Barbara Barton, are to bc discussed. Suggestions that can readily bo given effect to and will produce the greatest amount of money will be welcomed, Supporters of the Nursing Services Queen are reminded of the Shop Day being held tomorrow at the depot. * Perry Street tnexl Page's!. It is hoped that the public will respond to the appeal and bring goods as well as buy them.