“SILVER PLOUGH QUEEN”

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29271, 1 August 1960, Page 2

“SILVER PLOUGH QUEEN”

Fairview Girl Wins

Competition

Pretty girls and ploughing went together at the national ploughing championships at Washdyke on Saturday. New Zealand's first “Silver Plough Queen” was selected during the match. She is Miss Roberta Barclay, whose home is at Fairview, South Canterbury. Contestants were judged for personality, speech, deportment, dress and appearance by a panel comprising 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. Thomsons, Ltd., Timaru, and Mr G. Brand, of Wellington, managing director of a national advertising agency. Miss Barclay’s prize is a free air trip to Auckland and back, a week’s free hotel accommodation in Auckland with a programme of entertainment which is likely to include mannequin parades, visits to leading Auckland retail houses and manufacturers, scenic drives

and visits to Auckland, night clubs, and £2O as spending money. Aged 18 years. Miss Barclay is a shorthand typist in the office of the Transport Department in Timaru. The daughter of Mr and Mrs R. J. Barclay, of Fairview, she was educated at 'the Fairview school ’and Timaru GirlsVHigh School. She is interested in 'iports generally, and likes reading and music. “Absolutely marvellous—it will be great,” was how Miss Barclay described her feelings about the prize she had won immediately after the results had been announced. Rnnner-up

The daughter of a Mid-Canter-bury ploughman competing in the national final was placed runnerup in the contest. She is Miss Lois Croy, aged 18, who is a shorthand typist with a firm of solicitors in Ashburton. Educated at Wakanui School and Ashburton Technical College, Miss Croy is the daughter of Mr and Mrs E. J. Croy, of Wakanui. Her father has been match ploughing for about 30 years. Miss Croy is an Ashburton senior hockey representative and has been leader of the Ashburton Country Girls’ Club debating team for 1999-60. She is also interested in tramping, skating, ski-ing, tennis, swimming and woodworking and dressmaking. . Miss Margaret Ford (Geraldine) was placed third. Miss Phyllis Gardiner (Waitohi) fourth, and Miss Elizabeth Jackson (Kingsdown) fifth.

In her capacity as Silver Plough Queen, Miss Barclay had a place of honour on the dais when the final of the ploughing championship was announced and at a buffet dinner held in Timaru after the match.