Selecting A Queen

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 21

Selecting A Queen

While the ploughing judges are seeking to find the 1965 New Zealand ploughing champion at Chertsey on Saturday, another panel of judges will be selecting a young woman to be the Atlantic Silver Plough Queen. This contest is now a regular and popular feature of the national ploughing Cham pionships programme.

The entrants in this eon test will begin their ordeal in Ashburton tomorrow evening when they will be interviewed by the judges who are Mrs R. F. Black more, the wife of the New Zealand manager for the Atlantic Union Oil Company, Miss Lois Croy, who herself won the contest at Invercargill in 1962 and is the daughter of last year’s New Zealand champion ploughman, Mr E. J. Croy, of WakanuL and Mr A. B. Callender, drapery manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association in Christchurch, who is acting for the Wool Board. In the course of these interviews the girls will be assessed for scholastic attainment, sporting and other interests and speaking

ability. At the ploughing field ait Chertsey on Saturday they will be judged further for then - deportment and the way they wear their clothes. The fortunate girl who wins this contest wins a free return trip lo Rotorua with a week’s hotel accommodation there and £2O spending money. This prize is provided by the Wool Board, the New Zealand Ploughing Association and the Atlantic Union Oil Company.