QUEEN ELECTION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 105, 20 May 1937, Page 3

QUEEN ELECTION

Our Own Correspondent.

CAMPAIGN ON MOVE IN CENTRAL H.B.

From

WAIPUKURAU, This Day. , With the primary object of raising £100 to send a , representative team on ! tour nest winter, the Central Hawke's Bay Rugby Sub-Union is the moving body in a queen election campaign in whicb five candidates are to partieipate. The campaign will last over a period of about four months, ths finale being the election of the most popular queen candidate. Nominees are to be put forward by residents in the following districts: — Ongaonga-Tikokino-W aipawa, Omakere-Otane-Te Aute (Mss McHa.rdy), Takapau, P « nngahau (Miss Jacqueline Ormond) uud Waipukurau. Some of the candidates have not yet been nominated, but meetings are expected to be held in the near fpture. An enthusiastic band of Waipukurau jesidents held a round-table conference last night, when it was decided to ask Miss Shirley Clay to act as the official local candidate. Her candidature will he advanced by a eomimittee which at present is eomI>osed of Messrs Pat Peacock, L. Beachem, Alee McRae and J. G. Stewart. This committee has power to add to its "number. "We already are receiving good response to our campaign," said Mr A. L. McCormick, who presided over last night's meeting. "One geatleman has donated a fat hullock to the central committee, with a guaranteed price of £10 10/- and another a Shetland pony. These will he disposed of in a manner by which all five comanittees will benefit." Most of the committees were already hard at work in the interests of their candidates, he added, and it behoved the Waipukurau committee to lose no time in following suit.