CARNIVAL STAKES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 58, 3 April 1946, Page 5

CARNIVAL STAKES

POSITION OF FIELD i A FAST FURIOUS FINISH \ INDICATED —— The present position (indicated elsewhere on the page) held by town and county candidates in the R.S.A. Memorial Appeal Queen Carnival indicates that the final race down the home streteh will be a fast

and exciting one. At the moment, , Princesses Kathleen and Ellen are safely over the first hurdle, and are chasing the leaders, Princesses Parh and Beverley, who are rounding the turn into the back stretch and going strong. Princess Ivy has managed to get safely away from the barrier and now Princess Betty tails the field; (Betty’s supporters however, have been heard to mutter as they planted time bombs in the hip poc- - kets of opposition committeemen: “Wait until after Saturday, April 6; we’ll show ’em!”)

The Awakeri Committee has the organisation of its gymkhana completed, and it only remains now for the weather man to turn on a fine day, and the support of the public to ensure a substantial lead on the field.

Edgecumbe claims that now its favourite is almost in the lead they intend to keep her showing the way, that the final result is a foregone conclusion, and that it is nothing more nor less than simply a matter of how much she will win by. In the meantime, the two town committees are keeping their secrets under their hats (Secretary of the Young Veterans Committee we understand is contemplating adopting a bowler hat as his headgear, in order to keep his secrets under better control). Remaining town committee members are wearing expressions blanker and ranker than ever before, and this, to our minds* can mean only, one thing—they are about to produce a secret weapon.