I Am Treated As a Princess.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17995, 4 November 1926, Page 5

I Am Treated As a Princess.”

LITTLE MAVIS PYCROFT HAD A DREAM, BUT IT WAS NOT SO VERY ODD AFTER ALL.

(Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 4. Little Mavis Pycroft, the sixteen-year-old Canterbury beauty, who captivated the South Island with her beauty and unassuming grace, had a dream last night. She dreamt that she was a princess. “Now, isn't that funny?” she said to-day. “And yet it isn’t so surprising, is it? I have been having such a wonderful time. I have met so many wonderful people and seen so many wonderful places that that dream was not so very odd after all. I am treated like a princess, and a very lucky princess, too. lam so happy. No princess was ever happier than I, and I wonder now whether I am not really happier than the honest-to-goodness princesses of the world.” “ Miss Canterbury.” who is very fit, and hamlets of the south, and every is in love with the Wellington people, letter contains the wish that little “They’re simply grand.” she says, Mavis Pycroft will carry off the “Miss “ they're so warm-hearted and they give New Zealand” title. us such great receptions.” “ Are the girls still writing for “ Miss Canterbury’s ” mail these daj-s beauty hints?” she -was asked to-day. is attaining such proportions that the “ Yes, scores of them,” she answered, little blonde beauty is experiencing “ and they ask so many questions that difficult}' in finding time amongst her none but a beauty specialist would be engagements to read the many letters capable of answering, but I am glad to she receives. She has had letters from receive their letters all the same. I obscure out-back towns in the north love them all.”