More Info →Jaycees' Raft Race: To the Victors, Heaps of Flour

Description

The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

"To the victors, certainly not the spoils, but heaps of flour. As the Valuation Department team drifted under the Fitzherbert Bridge yesterday after winning the Awapuni Jaycee raft race, spectators pelted it with flour, carrots, eggs and other missiles. Bob Mitchell is seen being coated by this well-aimed flour bomb."

The winning team was comprised of... "John Clendin, Dave Roxburgh, Bob Mitchell, Dave Taylor, Peter Doherty and Alan Faulkner."

This was the Awapuni Jaycees’ fourth annual raft race. The 5.2-mile race from Te Matai Road to the Fitzherbert Bridge was a popular outing, attracting 88 competing crews and between 3000 to 4000 spectators. The race proved too much for some of the homemade rafts. One capsized and four others broke up on the journey down the river. The money raised was used for community charity development.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

December 3, 1973

Digitisation id

2023N_2017-20_AO297_001

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Other"