NAPIER MARDI GRAS
BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST MISS M. HART WINS Probably never before has Napier been visited by so many holidaymakers as it has this Christmas. Since Friday the scene in town, both by day and night particularly along the Marine parade, has been the liveliest. Gaily dressed crowds in typical holiday mood have thronged and explored the beauties of Napier’s delightful seafront to the full. The mardi gras was organised by the Napier Thirty-Thousand Club anc got into its full swing on Boxing Day, when the chief event, the New Zealand bathing beauty contest, was decided. The judges, Miss Jean Withington, Wellington, Miss Constance McDonald, Napier, and Mr. Claude Sawyers, Auckland, had no easy task in selecting the winner, and when the points were aggregated the placings were announced as follows:—
Miss Marcia Hart, Napier, 1; Miss Valayo Deslandes, Napier, and Miss Jean Lee, Napier, equal, 2; Miss Maisie Amner, Napier,- 4; Mrs. Margaret Simmons, Palmerston North, 5; Miss Dorothy Lambert, Napier, 6; Miss Joan Summerville, Palmerston North, 7: Miss Joyce Barber, Napier, 8; Miss Olive Dickson, Napier, 9; Miss Rosalie Green, Napier, 10.
The total prize money was £IOO, of which the winner took £SO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19519, 29 December 1937, Page 4
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