Skip to main content

Kōrero: Beauty contests

Hastings Blossom Festival queen and princess, 1962

Image
Hastings Blossom Festival queen and princess, 1962

In addition to the nationwide Miss New Zealand contests, local contests were held at community festivals. Here, the Hastings Blossom Festival queen of 1962 gives the royal wave to festival-goers during the street parade. The festival princess, Janice Troup, is in the foreground swathed in a pink quilted gown.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Private collection

by Peter Trask

This item has been provided for private study purposes (such as school projects, family and local history research) and any published reproduction (print or electronic) may infringe copyright law. It is the responsibility of the user of any material to obtain clearance from the copyright holder.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, Beauty contests – Beauty contests, 19th century to the 1950s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38681/hastings-blossom-festival-queen-and-princess-1962 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 14 November 2012, updated 1 December 2015.