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Looking at New Zealand - Beauty Queens
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1969
What particular qualities make up the typical lovely New Zealand girl?– The narrator
I adore frilly nighties and just can’t resist going to see the latest selection …– Miss Manawatu
I am 19 years old. I am a clerk at Levin Hospital and Training School. My home is in Levin. I have just been elected Miss Horowhenua. Every time I thought of the idea of wandering up and down on a stage in front of a lot of people waring a bathing suit, my knees started to shake.– Miss Horowhenua
The natural beauties of New Zealand, include its mountains, its lakes, its beaches ... and its girls.– The narrator
Looking at New Zealand has already established itself, under his [Conon Fraser’s] guidance, as a competently dressed shop window of the small screen film-maker’s art. The standards set must not only be maintained, but could well be studied and imitated by those assembling other similar offerings.– ‘Sight, Not Sound’, NZ TV Weekly, 16 December 1968
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