Won Design Contest A Maori boy stole a march on the girls at Ruapehu College, Ohakune. He is Taniwha Blackburn, whose design for a new school uniform for the girls at the college, won first prize in a competition organised by the college Board of Governors. The college will not decide on a new uniform before the start of 1971 and even then the winning design may not necessarily be the one chosen, but it was considered the outstanding one of the competition. A form 5A pupil, Taniwha called his design ‘Sammy’. He started with an A-line dress because ‘it suits all sized and shaped girls, it is fairly simple for the girls to make themselves, it allows for physical development and it is fashionable.’ The girls have not commented on the design.
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Te Ao Hou, 1971, Page 56
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