"MISS MEW ZEALAND"

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1927, Page 11

"MISS MEW ZEALAND"

WIN FOR DALE AUSTIN. HAZEL SPIERS RUNNER-UP. Auckland, Oct. 15. With a dear majority of 7323 votes, Miss Dale Austin, who was recently chosen as Otago’s representative in the Dominion beauty contest, has been elected to the position of Miss New Zealand. Second place was secured by Wellington’s choice, Miss Hazel Spiers, while Miss Billie Andreasson (Miss Auckland) was in third place, 549 votes separating the second and third, candidates. Details of the poll are as follow: Miss Dale Austin (Miss Otago) .... 1 Miss Hazel Spiers (Miss Wellington) 2 Miss Billie Andreasson (Miss Auckland) 3 Miss Vera Hodge (maid of honour to Miss Otago),-.. 4 Miss Leon McCall (Miss Canterbury) 5 Miss Hildred Graham (maid of honour to Miss Auckland) 0 Miss Pat Smidt (maid of honour to Miss Wellington) 7 Miss Morgie Cameron (maid of honour to Miss Southland) 8 Miss Winnie Tonkinson (Miss Southland) 9 Miss Jane Kinsey (maid of honour to Miss Canterbury) 10 "I really do not know what to say,” said Miss New Zealand after the result of the poll had been announced, “except that I am very excited and so very happy. It all seems too wonderful. I will regret parting with my sister finalists. We have been such a happy little band. It has seemed more like a holiday for all of us. Our respective positions on the poll have not made the slightest difference. All that lam sorry for is that the other girls cannot come to America with me.” Miss Austin celebrated her seventeenth birthday at Hastings during the tour. She is Miss Andreasson’s senior by precisely three weeks, and is, therefore the youngest but one in the party.