“NOT RIGGED IN N.Z.”
(From Our Own Reporter)
GREYMOUTH, June 18. Any suggestion that beauty contests in New Zealand are rigged, or that any immorality is attached to them, as has been alleged of overseas contests, was denied by “Miss New Zealand, 1964,” Miss Lyndal Cruickshank, of Invercargill, and the runner-up, Miss Helen Iggo, of Christchurch.
Both have been appearing with a stage show in Greymouth.
Miss Cruickshank said that all the entrants were nice, ordinary New Zealand girls. Miss Iggo said that morals were the judge’s business. In the five weeks’ tour of New Zealand, with the help of a chaperon’s report, the judges
got a very good idea of the girls’ moral fibre. Miss Cruickshank said she hated parading in a swim suit as a New Zealand contest was not a bathing beauty one. Miss Iggo said: “It does not affect me as modelling is my business. Sometimes there are whistles when a parade in bathing suits is announced, but when the contestants appear they are greeted with applause.” Miss Cruickshank said organisations had persuaded her to take part in the contest. Miss Iggo said that with her it was a “business matter” as she was a professional model with her own business.
The chance to go overseas was one of the main advantages.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30471, 19 June 1964, Page 2
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