COUNTRY GIRLS’ CLUBS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27862, 10 January 1956, Page 2

COUNTRY GIRLS’ CLUBS

Visitor From N.S.W. On Exchange Visit

MISS VALERIE COX IN CHRISTCHURCH

“I am looking forward to seeing many types of farms in New Zealand and also much of the Dominion’s scenic beauty during my four months' visit,” said Miss Valerie Cox. of Barrengarry, Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, in an interview with “The Press” on her arrival in Christchurch by air from Sydney yesterday afternoon.

Miss Cox has been, selected to represent the New South Wales Junior Farmers’ Clubs as the guest of the New Zealand Federation of Country Girls’ Clubs in an exchange scheme. She will be the guest of country girls’ clubs in various parts of New Zealand, and is the third Australian girl to be selected.

For the next two weeks she will be entertained by the Ohoka and districts club, and is the guest of Miss Peggie Robinson, the Dominion president and a member of the club. Miss Robinson represented the New Zealand Federation of Country Girls’ Clubs on an exchange visit with the Queensland Junior Farmers’ Club in 1954.

Miss Cox assists her father generally on their 243-acre dairy farm, 120 miles from Sydney, where they run a herd of Illawarra Shorthorn cows. She has been an active member of the Kangaroo Valley Junior Farmers’ Club for nearly 10 years, and during this period has developed a home industries project to a high standard, having won for five years the shield given by the Moss Vale Agricultural Society for the most successful girl exhibitor in the district. She has also won more than £2OO in prize-money at surrounding shows with horses in the show ring.

Besides taking a leading part in public speaking and debating contests for her club in competition with other district clubs. Miss Cox represented the district at the Royal Agricultural Society show camp last year, and this year was a semi-finalist in “The Girls” Australian Broadcasting Commission's radio contest.