A Time Line With Various Queen Carnivals
| Date | Location | Cou- ntry |
Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 1914 | Virginia Lake, Whanganui | NZ | 12 candidates for queen, including a Maori lady. |
| 27 August 1915 | Dunedin | NZ | |
| 28 August 1915 | Queensland | AU | Queen Carnivals associated with Queensland Patriotic Day; carnivals held in Brisbane, Beaudesert, Boonah, Croydon & Roma. |
| 2 October 1915 | Balmain, New South Wales | AU | Queen Carnival. Miss Edith Butt crowned. Total £1,250 raised in aid of local hospital, Rozelle Band & Civil Ambulance. |
| 9 November 1915 | Hobart, Tasmania | AU | Patriotic Queen Carnival. Miss Millie Jones, Queen of the Citizens crowned. Total £9,510.10 raised. |
| 4 December 1915 | Gallipoli | TR | 9th Field Artillery Battery, 1st AIF, won by "Ranji Randolph"; £43 10s. 6d. raised for Tasmanian Wounded Soldiers' Fund. |
| 1916 | Auckland | NZ | Queens wharf. |
| 1916 | Albany | AU | |
| 1917 | Mepanga East | NZ | |
| 1919 | Werribee | AU | |
| c. 1919 | Atherton | AU | |
| 1922 | Woombye | AU | |
| 1922 | Northcote | NZ | |
| 10 October 1924 | Seaford, Victoria | AU | Fund-raiser for Seaford Football Club (Australian Rules), won by the Queen of Dancing Miss Lillian Edwards |
| 1925 | Gisborne | NZ | Tepid pools |
| 1925 | St Andrews Parish | AU | |
| 1926 | Northland | NZ | |
| 1929 | Birkenhead | NZ | Funds for the Fire Brigade. |
| 1926 | Ballarat | AU | |
| 1931 | Waitua | NZ | Funds went to building local facilities, including a swimming pool |
| 1934 | Ngaio Railway Settlement | NZ | Settle a debt of £1000 on the Church of England |
| 1935 | Christchurch | NZ | Relief of Distress |
| 1940 | Perth | AU | |
| 1941 | Nelson | NZ | |
| 1941 | Melbourne | AU | |
| 1944 | Vogeltown | NZ | School hall |
| 1943 | Melbourne | AU | Lord Mayors Allies Day Appeal |
| 1953 | Oparure | NZ | |
| 1954 | Bondi | AU | |
| 1955 | Matapihi | NZ | Maori hostel & 1956 Matapihi Footbridge Appeal |
| 1957 | Feilding | NZ | Civic Centre |
| 1958 | Hastings | NZ | |
| 1965 | Paeroa | NZ | College Gymnasium. |
| 1968 | Taumarunui | NZ | Red Cross |
| 1970 | Upper Hutt | NZ | |
| 1970 | Vatukoula | FJ | |
| 1985 | Northern Tasmania | AU | Football Association |
| 2008 | Nadur Gozo Island | Malta | |
| 2008 | Wauchope, New South Wales | AU |
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