Now that interest is becoming quickened in the Grand Carnival Beauty Contest in aid of Mildura District Hospital, and candidates are being nominated freely, the conditions should be read again by everyone.
They are as follows:
Geographical Area – Central Sunraysia and the Northern Mallee
Competing Centres – Mildura, Irymple, Red Cliffs, Ouyen, Merbein and Wentworth, with no limit to the number of district entries, but reducible to a minimum of three in the case of Mildura, and of one for each of the other competing centres.
Benefiting Institutions – The contest will be in aid of the district hospitals and hospital funds, and the whole of the net district proceeds will go to the district hospital fund.
Persons Eligible – Any woman or girl married or single without restriction of age, whose friends consider her beauty warrants the entry of her name.
Method of Nomination – The signed nomination form must be left with the editor of Sunraysia Daily accompanied by, or followed by, a bust photograph of the lady. She is also expected to select a color or combination of colors under which she will run, and which her supporters will wear.
Contest Date – All entries must be made on or before March 15. Al withdrawals must be made before May 28. The contest closes at 4pm on Monday June 4. The result will be announced in Mildura at 10pm on the same evening.
Method of Selection – The contestants having been selected by the nomination of their friends, the contest will proceed by the test of popularity. Every penny contributed by admirers to the content fund will count as a vote, and will be so recorded. In addition, there will be an award by a competent judge from outside Sunraysia, whose award will be translated into terms of thousands of votes, and the totals will be added to those of the popular vote to make an aggregate award for each candidate. The contest is one, therefore, of both beauty and popularity.
Individual Competition – Each nominator is expected to form a working committee to advance the interests of his candidate; and he may raise money for that object by soliciting direct gifts or by any of the ordinary means of forming funds.
District Competition – Each nominator will become by that act a member of the district committee, whose duty it will be to create district interest, and to try to place one of the districts candidates at the head of the poll on June 4. Each district may have as many candidates as there are girls in the district with beautiful faces. As the voting proceeds the district committee, with the consent of the lady and her nominator, may withdraw any candidate or several candidates low in the poll, and may equally divide her, or their votes among the district candidates remaining, thus strengthening their competition as against the candidates of other districts.
Prizes – A valuable gold wristlet watch will be given to the winner of the competition. The prize list is not complete however, and the carnival committee will probably award other prizes. It is also hoped that district committees will be able to obtain from local enthusiasts articles of value from two guineas to ten guineas as district prizes.
The committee in control of the whole contest consists of: The President of the Carnival (Mr. M.J. Kelly), and Messrs Levy, McPherson, Nicholls, Pollock, jr, and Willetts
W.R. HAYTHORPE Secretary
