HER EXCELLENCY WINS.
“Would all you girls mind turning round for 'a minute?” asked his Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, at the close of his farewell visit to the Girls’ College. Wellington, on Friday. Obedient, if a trifle bewildered, the body of pupils turned as one and “presented backs’’ to vice-royalty. Followed sounds of hasty counting from the platform “Thank you, girls, that’s all,” said Sir Charles. “We’ve been counting pig tails,” he added as the laughter grew “and her Excellency wins. She counted eight on her side and I only got seven on mine. You know, I always find that it is the girls with the pigtails that get the most prizes. Also il you don’t begin to grow your hair quickly you will all be out of fashion in six months’ time.” His Excellency congratulated those girls who had kept their hair long and remarked, still in the same jocular vein, that they would have their reward, for not only would they win all the prizes but they would “have the laugh on all the others in six months.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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182HER EXCELLENCY WINS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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