The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.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 f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
This set of unpublished images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.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 ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
Crew captains raced to their rafts... "after the starting gun had been fired by Manawatu's Miss Commonwealth Games Hostess, T...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
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 B...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The race took place on the Manawatū River from Tematai Road to Fitzherbert Bridge.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1980
The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"An 88-strong armada of rafts makes its way down the Manawatu River yesterday during the Awapuni Jaycees' fourth annual raft ra...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973