Former Whakatane Girl Wins A Prize In WorldWide Essay Competition
As a prize in an international essay competition on the subject "Can Commercial Shortwave Promote World Peace," Miss Yvonne Bulled, of Broughan Street, Christchurch, has received a beautifully made miniature Dutch clog and a card from the organisers, the rado station, PC J, which is situated in HilversUny near Amsterdam in Holland and calls itself the "Happy Station."
Miss Bulled is fairly well known in the Waimana-Nukuhou district. She worked in one of the offces in Whakatane for 12 months. The youngest daughter of Mrs F. O'Kane : of Waimaha/and'an ex-pupil of the Nukuhou schol, she is now living with her sister, Mrs D. Currie, in Christchurch.
Miss Bulled is a regular listener to Station PCJ and entered for the competition, an essay of not more; than 200 words, when it was advertised over the air. |
The clog is painted in the nation--al colours, red, white and blue,- and is signed with the namg-of the station. The competition sponsored by the station on the event of its 20th anniversary last year.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 33, 31 March 1948, Page 5
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