Crowning “Miss N.Z.”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Crowning “Miss N.Z.”

Auckland Citizens Will Decide National Contest CONCLUSION OF NOTABLE TOUR (By the Movie Editor.)

A UCKLAND picture-goers will decide the final of the “Miss New Zealand 1927” contest. The different Queens, together with their Maids of Honour, who have been touring the Dominion, will appear in Auckland on Monday week (October 3). “Miss New Zealand 1927” will be crowned in our city. Mr. N. Hayward, who has been visiting centres throughout New Zealand in the interests of the competition’s

have been the order of the day at every town visited. Though Auckland’s representative, Miss Billie Andreasson. is not heading the aggregate vote, she has, according to Mr. Hayward, been one of the most popular members of the party. Miss Hildred Graham, the second Auckland representative, has put her knowledge of physical culture to such excellent purpose that every candidate for the honour of being “Miss New Zealand 1927” is in splendid fettle. The girls have visited every centre of importance in the Dominion. They have been feted and applauded, and, without exception, voted splendid examples of New Zealand girlhood. Though the tour has been a long, and somtimes arduous one —the girls have been constantly on the move since July I—theyl—they will, without exception, regret its conclusion. Nevertheless, all are looking forward to seeing Auckland. “Tell all my Auckland friends that I am longing to be back again, so that I may act for them,” is a message which Mr. Hayward has brought from “Miss Auckland.” Last night the girls were at New Plymouth. After touring Taranaki, they will come north to Whangarei. The tour will be concluded at Auckland.

organisation, has returned to Auckland. He is most enthusiastic regarding the manner in which the girl contestants have been received in every part of the Dominion. Mayoral receptions