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The Awapuni Racecourse was the second racecourse in Palmerston North. It was built on a raised area near a group of lagoons. The Racing Club bought 40 hectares and held their opening meeting on Boxing Day 1903, attended by a crowd of 10,000. It was used as a training ground for the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and later the New Zealand Army Medical Corps headquarters in World War One and used again as a military camp in World War Two.

Identification

Object type
Image
Date
circa 1923
Digitisation ID
2015OSP_Ra30_013175
Format
B&W print
Held In
Outsize

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Taxonomy

Tags
1920s,
awapuni racecourse,
black and white,
grandstand,
horse racing,
panorama,
racing,
Community Tags
awapuni,
racecourse,
racing,

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