Carnival of the Lake
Object type
Image
- Description
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The Carnival of the Lake took place at Hokowhitu Lagoon during Anniversary Weekend 1963. Events included a pet parade, children's competitions, Highland dancing, and a boating and canoeing regatta. Some other highlights were decorated gondolas, an elephant race and performances by the stuntman Indana who demonstrated firewalking and escaped from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a crane.
Identification
- Relation
- Z Collection - 2013-50
- Date
- 1963
- Digitisation id
- 2015P_2013-50_012000 - 2015P_2013-50_012008
- Format
- Colour print
- Held in
- Coolstore
Creation
- Created By
- Merlyn Drew
Object rights
- License
- Attribution + NonCommercial