Judges For 'Miss N.Z.' Contest
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Four judges have been appointed by the Wellington branch of the Royal Society of St George to select 17 district winners and then “Miss New Zealand” in the quest which the society is conducting to swell its Food for Britain Fund.
The judges are Miss H. Iris Crooke, director-general of New Zealand Red Cross V.A.D.s; Miss G. Helen Garnder, teacher of singing, speech training and stage deportment; Mr Robert Steele, of Auckland, photographer; and Mr Philip A. Smithells, who is to be director of the School of Physical Education to be established at Otago University next year. As soon as the quest closes on October 11 the judges will begin their tour of the Dominion to interview every candidate at selected judging towns.
The district winjmrs, 'who are to receive a prize of £IOO each, will be announced as soon as they are chosen. Seventeen of them will be brought to Wellington, probably in the first week in November, for the final judging.
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Northern Advocate, 3 September 1947, Page 4
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