CENTENNIAL QUEEN CARNIVAL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 5

CENTENNIAL QUEEN CARNIVAL

Selection Of Candidates

Three candidates have already been nominated for the queen carnival to be conducted to assist in raising the Hutt quota of the. funds required for the provincial centennial memorial on Petone foreshore. It is expected that seven queens will be nominated. Those selected are Miss Natalie Whiteman (motor industry), Miss Joan Cowie (returned soldiers), and Mrs. Richard Bradley (women’s organizations). Mrs. Bradley was the winner of “The Dominion” aria contest last year and subsequently competed in Australia. Large industrial organizations are also nominating queens. The manufacturers have had enthusiastic meetings and are each working for a queen of their own. Their idea is to have a competition among themselves, the queen raising the largest amount to participate in the main queen contest. The manufacturers’ central committee has arranged, through the courtesy of Mrs. Vivian Riddiford, to have a garden party and fete at her residence on Saturday. The women’s organizations’ queen committee held a garden party on Saturday at Mrs. Brown’s residence, Taita. Committees are being set up in the Hutt Valley and Eastbourne to further the interests of this queen. A railways queen has not yet been decided on and cinemas have decided not to have a queen. There will be a procession on April 1 in which each queen committee will probably have a float.