More Info →Competitors in "Miss Manawatū" Contest

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 04 March 1958, page 12: "Twenty-eight attractive young women are seen as they appeared before the judges in the "Miss Manawatū" contest at Guddop's Lake on Sunday." The winner was Cynthia Fielding of Palmerston North (contestant no.3). Dianne Butehart of Wanganui and Erika Hogan of Feilding, finished second and third respectively. Guddop's Lake is now called Dudding Lake (2019).

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2017-20

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

March 4, 1958

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_014652

Format

B&W negative