TROOPERS’ WELCOME SOCIAL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 158, 4 June 1901, Page 2

TROOPERS’ WELCOME SOCIAL.

TQ THE. EDITOR. - Sir. —l would like to make a humble suggestion with regard- to this social* It is surely desirable that all classes of. the community should be- as fully, represented as possible on an. occasion of this kind. Now there are a good many people that ‘do not care for dancing, while of course there are many others to whom without dancing, the social would be very inoomples£sLla it not possible so to arrange the fw* gramme as to meet both classes. X bear some Mafc that. those is to. be

dancing from eight to nine, then an hour’s interval for music and speeches of welcome etc. etc.; then dancing to bo resumed at ten. This is not altogether a bad arrangement, but I think it might be improved. Those who do not care for dancing do not desire to hang round for the first hour Mid watch the dancers till nine p.m. when the part of the programme in which they are interested begins. Probably in this case they will not come at all. Why not have the speech making, songs etc. from eigot to nine then have an opportunity for refreshments and general chat till 9.00 or so and then start the dancing for those that wish to wait for it. Surely it is more fitting that the actual words of welcome to the troopers be spoken at the outset of the evening If this suggestion be adopted it will nrobably mean the presence of fifty or a hundred extra people at the social, and perhaps more than that These folk have I think some title to be considered, because they are just as cordial in welcoming the troopers home as anybody else. A word to the wise is enough. —Yours, etc., D Nondancer.