'Wotta Girl'

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1949, Page 4

'Wotta Girl'

RUSSELL, Wed. (Sp.).—lt did not seem quite fait to hear the loud-speaker man, while lissome lovelies were characteristically im- > pressing the judges in the bathingbeauty contest at the Russell Regatta, continually praise the charms of a contestant not yet seen.

“Yes, sir, and very nice—but you fellows just wait until you see No. 3—Miss Kawakawa!”

The crowd may or may not have turned aside from the pulchritudinous forerunners, but it certainly > wanted to see “Miss Kawakawa.” Then “she” came. Down the flight of steps and on to the lawn, up to the dais and round the posture chair, back to the dais and home.

But what a journey! Tripping and prancing, swaying and whirling, “Miss Ka.vakawa” had the , dense throng in howls of merriment as “she” kicked hairy legs at them, gowked ‘her” painted and swollen visage at them, tossed unkempt locks at them. Finally, due no doubt to recalcitrant shoulder straps, two half-lemons tumbled to the ground and gave the show away completely.

“Miss Kawakawa” was a masculine fraud—but one of the day’s memories.