SURF GIRLS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1924, Page 4

SURF GIRLS.

SVDXKV tIKAI-TY COMPETTHOX. SYDNEY. July :‘l. As tlic result- of tliu Sydney “Daily Guardian’s” competition. wliio’j attracted contestants from practically every .surfing beach in tiie State, and almost every inland town with a bathing pool, Miss Dili I'm Owen. of -Manly, one of Sydney’s most popular ivlitPring resorts, lias l»een adjudged by a committee (if artists the most beautiful surf girl in Xov South Wales. I his honour, in itself, would have satisfied numbers of girls, but it carries with it. i.'n addition, a prize of £•">(!!>. Sixteen other girls devided up prizes totalling another toDO. The competitors attracted more than 1(100 nominations. Miss Owen, who is a brunette, and who is a young woman of magnificent physical proportion, is something of a challenge to those who lay down hard and last rules for women if they aspire to goon health and good figures, for she admitted to ail interviewer that she eats anything and everything. ”1 surf and f jazz.” she says. It sounds a very simple and satisfying regime on which to win £oO:;. Miss Owen, who lives with her grandmother, is thinking of setting the kilter up in a bogrdinglioiisc with her £oOU. Miss Owen, whose niciure suggests a perfect specimen of feminine fitness, lias already, so she says, had over -K1 proposals of marriage.