QUEEN CARNIVAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5440, 26 June 1929, Page 2

QUEEN CARNIVAL.

SPORTS QUEEN LEADS. KEEN INTEREST DISPLAYED. Great interest is being displayed in Paeroa over the Queen Carnival, and success is attending the untiring efforts of the various organisers and committees responsible. But this is merely the commencement of the campaign : the just been broken, and during the rest of the campaign, which is going to be more interesting still, continued spontaneous support and cheerful participation and co-op-eration are necessary to bring the attendant overwhelming ultimate success the unemployment scheme so unreservedly deserves. The Sports Queen.

The Sports Queen so far heads the list. A meeting of her committees, ladies’ and men’s, was held on Monday night. Several donations were received in the way of saleable articles, etc., to further the interests of the scheme. Mr L. Masters’ resignation was accepted with regret, he naturally feeling it incumbent upon himself to drop out of the Sports Committee in order to be able to fully support his sister, Miss I. Masters, who is Business Queen. Messi’s G. P. de Castro, J. W. Forrest, and H. M. Shand were elected to the committee.'

The. proposal to have a copper trail on Saturday night was formulated. A most successful dance was held last night by the Sports Queen’s adherents in the Gaiety Theatre, a report of which is published elsewhere. The Business Queen.

Nor are the other committees lagging behind, although their Queens might not for the moment be holding premier honours. A most amusing idea is displayed in a shop window in Belmont Road on bdhalf of the Business Queen. Who is the ugliest man in Paeroa ? That' is the question to be decided there. Three names are listed in the window purporting to be those of the men in Paeroa lacking the features of Apollo. To get one’s name taken down it is necessary to pay a shilling and nominate another person for the doubtful honour, and so the changing will go on until the end of the campaign, and the luckless person whose name has appeared there the most times will be declared ebacted. Naturally it will be seen that anyone among Paeroa’s male population, classically featured or the reverse, is liable to be humorously libelled. The Farmers’ Queen. The executive of the Farmers’ Queen Committee, Messrs H. J. Hare, A. F. Steedman, G. McMillan, and C. N. O’Neill, attended a meeting last night of the sub-committee at Netherton for the purpose of extending the operations, about 30 being present, with Mi- Colin Mason in the chair. The whole of the members formed a committee, and a smaller executive committee was elected, with Mr. Alan Mills as secretary and treasurer. Various schemes for furthering the Queen’s campaign were discussed, and a confident feeling of ultimate success prevailed. To-morrow night a dance and euchre tournament will be held in the Netheiton Hall; on Saturday a “Bring and Buy” stall will be held in the main street of Paeroa, where there will be turkeys, ducks, and fowls galore, and all sorts of good things ; and on Thursday'next, July 4, a grand social and euchre tournament will be held in the Netherton Hall. Particuare advertised elsewhere in today’s issue.