Action of various home-made rafts operated by groups of children participating in a race along the Avon River and on the Estuary. Frames three to six show crowds of people watching the race along the...
Children playing in the floodwater on Breezes Road.
Newspaper caption: The operations of No. 1 Field Company New Zealand Engineers at the Annual Training Camp, Tai Tapu, Canterbury. Territorial Camp: No.1 N.Z. Engineers at Tai Tapu. At the annual camp...
A group of children from Chisnallwood Intermediate School on a raft during a raft race.
Two rafts with rafters travelling down the Avon River during a raft race passing under bridges over Madras Street and Kilmore Street. Several people are stood on the Madras Street bridge watching the...
Views of the scouts annual raft race on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary.
View down the Avon River towards the Wainoni Road bridge and New Brighton during a raft race. Spectators are stood on the bridge and along the banks of the river.
View of spectators hosing and throwing buckets of water at rafters from the Avondale Road bridge during a raft race along the Avon River.
View up the Avon River towards Avonside and Avondale of rafters travelling down towards New Brighton during a raft race. Some spectators are along the banks of the river and the Port Hills are visible...
The New Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade raft and rafters travelling down the Avon River during a raft race. Residential housing along Hulverstone Drive in Avondale is visible in the background with...
Peter Sinclair who has lived on a raft in Lake Victoria to raise money for Telethon.
Tertiary students in a raft race from the Bridge of Remembrance to Victoria Square.
Christchurch Polytechnic students in a raft race from the Bridge of Remembrance to Victoria Square.
Views of Scouts during their Kon-tiki race on the Estuary.
Views of the boys rafting at the Views of the Boys Brigade Camp near the Waipara River.
Views of the Boys Brigade Camp near the Waipara River.
People in costume rafting on the Avon River
Canterbury Rugby player, Warwick Taylor, being pushed out of a raft overseeing the Great Apple Race in the Avon River.
Teachers' raft at Chisnallwood Intermediate School raft race on Avon River.
A group of New Zealand Army Engineers, 3rd Field Company, carrying out a mobile bridge exercise on Victoria Lake in Hagley Park. The exercise involves ferrying a military truck across the lake using a...
Robin Buxton, a member of the Friends of the Adolescent Unit, in a raft on the Avon River protesting against the closure of the adolescent unit at Sunnyside Hospital.
"A rafting competition on the Avon with home-built rafts. Probably in Dallington area near Locksley Ave looking towards Horseshoe Lake Road?" - Contributor's note