Silver Plough Queen To Be Chosen

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 18

Silver Plough Queen To Be Chosen

Ploughing is by no means the only attraction on the programme for the New Zealand ploughing championships at Washdyke tomorrow.

For the first time in New Zealand there will be a Silver Plough Queen contest on the lines of Queen of the . Furrow contests held overseas. The lucky country girl who wins this contest will have a week’s free holiday in Auckland later this year. The girl will be selected on the basis of dress and appearance from 24 dress and appearance from 26 girls who have entered for the contest. All are between 18 and 25 years of age. The girls will make a public appearence on the dais at Washdyke at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow wearing a woollen dress or suit. A grant of £2O spending money for the winner is being; provided by the Timaru Ploughing Match Association, the Wool Board is arranging the air travel .of the wirmer, the Atlantic Oil Company is arranging the girl’s hotel accommodation and the Wool Board and the Atlantic Union Oil Company

are jointly arranging a week’s programme of entertainment for the winner which is likely to include mannequin parades, visits to leading Auckland retail houses and clothing manufacturers, scenic drives and visits to Auckland night clubs. Many prizes for the contestants have been donated by Timaru retailers. The judges will be Mrs E. J. Melrose, of Wellington, wife of the New Zealand manager of the Atlantic Union Oil Company, Mrs W. F. Forde, of T.. and J. Thomson’s Ltd., Timaru, and Mr G. Brand, of Wellington, managing director of a national advertising agency.

Other items on the day’s programme are go-kart races, sheep dog trials, needle in the hay stack competitions, a parade and display of vintage cars, a display of vintage implements, mannequin parades arranged by the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association in a prefabricated barn erected by Burnett Motors, an Aero Club display and aerial lolly scramble for the children, a model aeroplane display, a children’s pet parade, a marching display by the Zodiac girls’ marching team, an exhibition of Maori relics and musical entertainment by the Timaru Highland Pipe Band which will also lead the parade of competitors preceding the match.