‘Miss N.Z.’ has few illusions

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33251, 14 June 1973, Page 6

‘Miss N.Z. ’ has few illusions

| CN.Z. Press Association) ] , AUCKLAND, June 13. J “Miss New Zealand, . 1973,” Miss Pamela J King, flew to Auckland j i last evening to begin \ , clothes fittings, the first duty of a new beauty ’ ' queen. , ’ The tall blonde from Otago ' , I arrived unheralded and al- s most unnoticed on a flight f I from Wellington. ' i She has few illusions about i 1

the role she will be playing . ifor the next 12 months. 1 ( THEY GIVE, YOU GIVE r “Of course it is a business,” she said. “It is a good job where you can earn as much 1 as you want. But I’m not all • that interested in money as ] ]

long as 1 can enjoy what I’m doing. This year will be a challenge. “I don’t intend to let my reign die out the way some have. I want to be involved in a lot of things and do well.” Miss King dismisses the ■notion that some of the restraints imposed on a beauty queen may prove irksome to her. “They give and you give.” she said. “If you do your job properly it works 'out all right.” On the Women’s Liberation Movement, vocal opponents of beauty contests, she has some strong views. “They should be out in the street looking for something worth while to fight about. I certainly don’t need liberating —no man tells me what to do. We compromise.” Miss King will be in Auckland until the end of the week to be fitted with clothes by the Wool Board, which is sponsoring her wardrobe.