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Miss Australia 1957 Helen Wood farewelled at Mascot, March 1958

By
Jack Hickson
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[APA 05090]
(Mitchell Library)

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Hickson, Jack

State Library of New South Wales

Women

Fashion

Tourism

Aeroplanes

Wood, Helen

School teacher from Tintaroo Falls, Queensland who won the title of Miss Australia1957 at the age of 19. She and Australian tennis player Ashley Cooper married in 1959.

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Sydney Airport

Major airport serving Sydney and Australia, which is one of the oldest continuously operating airports in the world. Successive enlargements have resulted in the reclamation of land in Botany Bay to build new runways, and the resumption of property in surrounding suburbs because of noise.

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Miss Australia Quest

Competition for girls which ran from 1954 until 2000. Competitors raised money for sufferers of cerebral palsy.

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