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Scottish ball

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Scottish ball

Wellington’s Caledonian Society held its first annual ball in 1887. The programme included a list of 22 dances, beginning with the quadrille, followed by polkas, waltzes, lancers, Highland schottisches, reels, a mazurka and finally a galop.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Caledonian Society of Wellington Collection

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1887-01-cover

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Megan Cook, Dancing – Dancing in 19th-century New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/40941/scottish-ball (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 27 February 2013.