Bathing Belle Contest

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 24, 29 January 1937, Page 2

Bathing Belle Contest

GISBORNE STILL DISSATISFIED. (Special to "Times.") NAPIER, Last Night. Dissatisfaction with the explanation of the Napier Thirty Thousand Club regarding the substitution of a Waipawa candidate who ultimately won the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast bathing belle contest was expressed at a meeting held in Gisborne last night. Tho meeting decided “that some amends should be made to the general public by the Napier Thirty Thousand Club and expects that club to make such amends as will satisfy public opinion and the belle committees." About 20 people attended the meeting, including Mr Jack Harris, president of the Napier Thirty Thousand Club, and Mr S. P. Spiller, secretary of the club. The Mayor of Gisborne, Mr D. W. Coleman was in the chair. The following motion, moved by Mr Gambrill, and seconded by Mr Ancferson, was carried unanimously: “That this meeting thanks the Napier delegates for their attendance, but regrets that it is not satisfieed with the explanation offered; considers that some amends should be made to the general public by the Napier Thirty Thousand Club and expects that club to make such amends as will satisfy public opinion and the belle committees." On the motion of Mr W. Jenkins, the meeting also unanimously passed a .resolution expressive of its confidence in the integrity of Mr Spiller.