Anna Harvey-Lorck was the provincial harvest queen of Waipukarau in 1989. Just 17, she became a small town’s ambassador to its sister town in Australia. Now, 24 years on, she remembers the look on her parents’ face when she was crowned, how she told organisers the contest needed to be less pageant and what she took from it in the long-term, particularly as mum to five girls.
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