Haeremai and Basketball Dance

The Haeremai Hobos and the Basketball Beauties worked enthusiastically, and as a result the Dance (fancy dress) run by them on Saturday, August 8th, was well up to expectations. Not that more could not and should not have turned up—but still, military twosteps are rather strenuous upon a crowded floor and it was decent to have a small amount of floor-space in which to side-step and out-manoeuvre the opposition.

The usual group of notabilities, ranging from Prof. Kirk, Mrs. Rankine Brown and Mr. Wild to the Commissionarie (a new one this time, and a sentimental philosopher to boot) were duly in attendance. Malcolm Mason, despite desperate attempts at disguise, was very evidently the "big noise" who ran the show, and hoarsely prayed transgressors to keep off the Commissionaire's grass in the morning and in the evening, too. The prizes for the best Fancy Dress adjudicated upon by committee or committees unknown, resulted in Mr. Wansborough having an evening's indulgence in cigarettes, and the Dionne Quintuplets having, no doubt, a mewling and puking quarrel anent the ownership of a box of chocolates.