Former Miss Canterbury” Now Sydney Model

Press, Volume C, Issue 29526, 30 May 1961, Page 2

Former Miss Canterbury” Now Sydney Model

A former winner of the “Miss Canterbury” title who has made a successful modelling career in Sydney has returned to Christchurch to visit her parents. She is Miss Ann Millar, who won the title in 1958.

Miss Millar went to Sydney to further her modelling career, and says she has had a great deal more opportunity than if she had stayed in New Zealand. She works through an agency and does television parades and commercials. manufacturers’ and organised parades. store parades, and photographic modelling for advertisements. She has also modelled in several parades in hotels including the new Chevron-Hilton.

She has found that most Sydney models, including those at the top. work through agencies. In the tough, competitive field of modelling, she feels that this takes a lot of worry from the models. There were, however, only two well-known agencies in the city, and very few smaller ones, she said. Few models did free-lance work. “I found all the models wonderful to work with, very friendly and willing to help each other.” Miss Millar said in Christchurch yesterday. The principal of her agency was also a great help to all the girls, and while very strict, she was also pleasant and charming.

In spite of all the glamour of her job. Miss Millar has had to work very hard Working in Sydney’s excessive heat was particularly trying. She modelled furs in a temperature of 100 degrees Although her work is exacting and time-consuming, she finds time to do a great deal of swimming and water-ski-ing. She has also developed a new hobby—flying —for she has a friend who owns a private plane. This has been the means of her

seeing a lot of Australia. She was flown to Broken HilL Adelaide and Perth, and she once worked in Brisbane for a week.

She shared a flat with another Christchurch girl <Miss Beverley French) who recently returned to Christchurch,

“Flatting in Sydney is awful” Miss Millar said yesterday. She and Miss French paid £lO for a flat in King's Cross, where it was cheaper to take a taxi home than to go by bus. The taxi charge for a ride to work was usually about two shillings Food and night elubs were also major expenses, Miss Millar said. When she and three others "did the night clubs” on the evening before her return home, the total cost was £5B for three clubs Clothes, however, were not very expensive. Woollen garments were cheaper than in New Zealand Australian women were more fashion conscious and better groomed than New Zealand women. “Rven the most junior

office girls always have beautifully groomed hair, because women there concentrate more on hair styling and grooming than on hats.” she said. Miss Millar has been in Sydney for nine months. She intends to spend six weeks with her family before returning to work.