More Info →Jaycees' Raft Race: Won by Valuation Department Crew

Description

This set of unpublished images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

The race was "won by a six-man crew from the Valuation Department. It comprised John Clendin, Dave Roxburgh, Bob Mitchell, Dave Taylor, Peter Doherty and Alan Faulkner. Second place went to the Maw Haws Social Club"... "and third to the Mr Whippy Icecream raft."

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_006

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Other"