BEACH PARADES
CENSURED BY COUNTRY WOMEN
MELBOURNE, April 5
Cocktail drinking and beach beauty parades were strongly criticised to-day by delegates to the conference of the women’s section of the United Country party.
Mrs. A. M. Black (Trawin Lower) said she was ashamed to think it was necessary to ask shire councils to eliminate beauty competition parades from their beaches.
“The virtue of a nation rests with its women,” Mrs. Black said. “The girls of to-day do not seem to realise the harm they do to the ideals of womanhood by taking part in these degrading spectacles in scanty bathing gowns that are intended only for wearing in the water. I do not want to appear narrow-minded or priggish, but it is highly objectionable that girls should take part in such spectacles that are witnessed by mixed crowds, and should submit themselves to the crude laughs and jokes of course-minded men.
Mrs. J. L. Henderson (Wangaratta) said that cocktails were made from primary produce, just as cigarettes were, but the main thing, was to be moderate in all things. The habit of going to cocktail parties meant simply going out deliberately on a’ drinkingspree. Resolutions protesting against beach beauty parades and cocktail parties were carried unanimously.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 4
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