Story: Beauty contests

More links and websites

• Miss IndiaNZ

  The Miss IndiaNZ competition is an annual beauty contest for New Zealand women of Indian origin.

• Miss World New Zealand

  The website of the Miss World competition in New Zealand.

• Radio New Zealand: National: The Arts on Sunday: Sunday 14 February 2010

  This page on the Radio New Zealand website features an interview by Lynn Freeman with New Zealand historian Caroline Daley about beauty contests.

More suggestions and sources

• Daley, Caroline. Leisure & pleasure: reshaping & revealing the New Zealand body 1900–1960. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

• Coney, Sandra. Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote. Auckland: Viking, 1993.

• Jolly, Spencer. The miss parade. Wellington: Southern Press, 1974.

• The story of Maureen Kingi: Miss New Zealand, 1962. Dunedin: Joe Brown Enterprises, 1962.