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.
https://dtq0471jmmy9v.cloudfront.net/iiif/2/curtis-production2-cache%2F1%2F3%2F2%2F69a4a4-0b79-4569-a298-58aade7e3587%2Fresize_master_2a4e2d4132428fbba6a574b1c19eaaaa.jpg/full/!880,1024/0/default.jpg?sig=13d5952b79249f5f8968b3b1f9eb4f3382c467c7&ver=1655509782Panorama of Awapuni Racecourse
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- Object type
- Image
- Digitisation ID
- 2015OSP_Ra30_013175
- Title
- Panorama of Awapuni Racecourse
- Format
- B&W print
- Held In
- Outsize
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- Unknown
- Place
- 67 Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
- Date
- circa 1923
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