Dancing in the Daytime

A scene at the first ball of the season? The picture above looks like it, except for the num ber on the gentleman's back in the distance.

When this picture was taken, it was mid-afternoon on Easter Saturday. The occasion for these diurnal terpsichorean goings-on (translate that with a dictionary) was the Poverty Bay Ballroom Dancing Championships. Local competitors met with stiff opposition from visitors from Wellington, Hamilton, Napier, and other parts, so that three of the open titles were won by outsiders, but in a number of events they held their own against all comers.

Left, Miss M. Hickman, Mr B. Amor (Gisborne). Centre, Miss G. Thomson, Mr T. Bai (Gisborne). Right, Miss B. Adams, Mr S. Nairn (Hamilton).

Men in tails wore numbers for identification

Girls wore ballerina frocks, layers of frilly petticoats

Miss P. Morgan and Mr J. Lamout, who won the Poverty Bay Championship.

Second equal: Miss G. Thomson and Mr T. Bai (left) and Miss J. Sheppard and Mr D. Rutherford

Miss M. Hickman and Mr B. Amor (third)

Miss B. Bain Mr R. Stewart

Miss J. Neale Mr J. Pardoe

Miss M. Meade Mr Ted Hugel

Miss Morgan & Mr Lamont dancing

Dancers on this page competed in the P. B. Championship. These were the judges: Mr and Mrs J. McCabe, Putaruru, Miss Y. Black & Mr R. Essex, Wellington.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 34 : May 2, 1957

Dancing in the Daytime