KIA TOA DANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 13

KIA TOA DANCE.

A KECORD ATTENDANCE. There was a record attendance at the annual ball of the Kia Ton Football Club in the Cocoanut Grove, last evening, when the majority of the members of the Springbok side and the Manawatu representative team were present. The hall presented a gay appearance with its novel decorative scheme and old-time and modern dances were featured. The M.C.'s were Messrs L. Heatley and T. Doherty. ■ - ■ - . The management committee of the club, headed by the president, Mr H. It. Crawford, and tl»o secretary, Mr G. A. Brown, were responsible for the organisation of the dance, and they were assisted by other members, particularly Mr G; Storey, as assistant secretary. Mr Crawford was accompanied by Mrs Crawford, a member of the energetic ladies' committee, who wore burgundy satin and a white fur evening coat. Supper arrangements were in the hands of a band of ladies under the supervision of Mrs G. Farrar, who wore gold blistered satin. Other committee ladies were Mrs T. Doherty, in orange satin ; Mrs L. Heatley, in rose floral georgette; Mrs J. Evans, Marina blue crepe; Miss E. Heatley, pink and black floral crepe; and Miss E. Bruce, pink taffeta.

The supper tables arranged on the balcony were decorated with orange Iceland poppies and birch, with streamers of green and orange as a compliment to the South African visitors.

SENORA ISABEL OF SPAIN. AVhen I was in Spain shortly before the outbreak of civil war, writes an overseas correspondent, I several times met Senora Isabel de Palencia, Spain’s new woman Alinister to Sweden. Despite her numerous activities, she always had time to greet English visitors and to tell them something of her hopes and dreams for the new Spain which she was helping to reconstruct. A tall, slender, dark woman with black hair, dark flashing eyes and a pale complexion. Senora Isabel speaks English, as well as many other languages, very fluently. It was her great pride that she had been one of the founders of the Lyceum Club for Women in Aladrid, Spain’s first feminine club, and it was largely due to her instigation that it was opened in a charmine old house, attractively decorated in the modern Spanish style. Here, every afternoon at five o’clock, surrounded by a band of ardent feminists, including Victoria Kent, she was to he found drinking tea, relaxing from her public duties. Every hour was well filled ; even her holidays were passed travelling from one village to another, holding public meetings, trying to tell the simpleminded Spanish women peasants something about the duties of citizenship, of which she saw they knew very little.

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