PLOUGH QUEEN
A competitor, born and educated in Christchurch won the Atlantic Silver Plough contest held in conjunction with the New Zealand ploughing championships near Blenheim. She is Miss Valmai Gardiner, aged 24, the daughter of Mr and Mrs E. R. Gardner, of Fairhall. Miss Gardner won a return trip to Rotorua at the expense of the Wool Board, hotel accommodation for a week, given by the Atlantic Union Oil Company (N.Z.), Ltd, and $4O in spending money, given by the New Zealand Ploughing Association. Miss Gardner was educated at Rangi-Ruru school. For more than two years she has been travelling overseas and for more than a
year she lived in Jordan where she worked as a secretary-typist. The Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) recalled yesterday that on the day that war broke out in the Middle East last year Miss Gardner was lost for a day in Jerusalem. Before Miss Gardner went overseas she was a productions technician with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in Christchurch.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 1
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