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Donnybrook celebrates Apple Queen history and its role promoting agriculture industry

Contestants in the first Apple Queen competition in 1954. June Yates (left) was crowned the winner. (Supplied: State Library of WA)

The small country farming town of Donnybrook, in the south-west of WA, is synonymous with apples. 

Its playground is apple-themed, its streets are decorated with large green apples, and most years since 1954 the town has gathered to celebrate the region's thriving apple-growing industry and to crown its "queen".

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