Beauty contests were an annual summer event at coastal holiday spots and some are still held in the early 2000s. Here, contestant number 13 poses at the end of the catwalk at the Miss Caroline Bay competition in Timaru, around 1965. The huge crowd must have been a daunting sight for some contestants, but this woman looks pretty comfortable.
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