Miss Auckland Offered American Scholarship
WELLINGTON, Sat. (P.A.) A Maori girl, Miss Miraka Petricevich Butler, known as Miss Raharuhi, who, as Miss Auckland, was one of the finalists in the recent Miss New Zealand quest, has been offered a fellowship worth SISOO by the Pacific Fellowship Council of the Association of University Women of America. The fellowship will enable her, if she accepts, to undertake a year’s course in social science at Honolulu. Miss Petricevich attended a conference of Maori welfare officers, which concluded yesterday at Parliament Buildings.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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