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The elephants, from Bullens Circus, carried 5 ‘leading personalities’, as they raced for the ‘Carnival Cup’ at Carnival Track (thought to be at the Esplanade). The Carnival of the Lake was centred around Centennial Lake, and was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years in the early 1960s. Elephant races seem to have been popular in many New Zealand towns in the 1960s.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Hoko 22
Date
January 18, 1963
Digitisation ID
2011P_Hoko22_004938
Held In
Coolstore

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