More Info →Jaycees' Raft Race: Starts at Te Matai Road

Description

The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

"It was a Le Mans-type start at Te Matai Road, with the crew captains racing to their rafts after the starting gun had been fired."

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_AO298_009

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Other"