TARANAKI QUEEN CARNIVAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144815, 20 October 1915, Page 2

TARANAKI QUEEN CARNIVAL.

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS.

Preliminary arrangements are now in hand for organising a Queen Carnival in Taranaki. The scheme has originated with the Kaw Plymouth Sports Ground’ Committee, and the first step has been to obtain the approval of the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee, and this having been given last week the committee is now awaiting similar recognition from the patriotic bodies in other towns in Taranaki.

One of the principal ideas which the committee has is to make the carnival a Taranaki carnival, and not to allow parochialism to enter into the scheme. It is proposed to hold the 'carnival next February, and the promoters expect that if the various towns in the province combine to make a big effort a sum of £20,000 or £30,000 should be collected, the whole of the profits to go to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. A carnival recently held in Southland produced £66,000, and elsewhere the results have been equally gratifying, so that the people of Taranaki should have no hesitation in embarking upon such a project. It is proposed that every county should support a queen in addition to one from New Plymouth as follows;

New Plymouth district (headquarters at New Plymouth). Egmont County (headquarters at Opunako). Waimate West County (headquarters at Manaia).

Stratford and Whangamomona Counties (headquarters at Stratford).

Eltham County (headquarters at Eltham). Hawera County (headquarters at Hawera).

Clifton County (headquarters at Waitara). ,

Taranaki County (headquarters ah Inglewood).

This will mean there will be eight* candidates for the honour of being Queen of Taranaki, and each candidate will have the support of a definite district. A strong committee will b© established at each headquarters and 'sub-committees will work in the smaller centres.. Each district will retain its own funds, less expenses, pro rata.