Slide, Tauranga Orange Festival

Maker
Robert Gale
Production date
28 Aug 1965
Current rights
© In copyright
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Object detail

Description
A colour slide showing three people doing acrobatics on a moving motorcycle. A large crowd watches the performance. The event has been identified as part of the Tauranga Orange Festival. Recorded by the photographer as 'Orange Festival, Racecourse events.' "Crowds which attended the Orange Festival gala day at Tauranga racecourse were treated to thrilling displays of trick motor-cycle riding by a four-man team from Palmerston North." Tauranga Photo News, 18 September 1965

The Tauranga Heritage Collection has more than 2000 photographic slides taken by Robert Gale. Robert and his family moved to Tauranga in the early 1960s and he taught at Merivale School until retirement. Robert was a member of the Tauranga Photographic Society for many years. We ask that you publish an acknowledgement, or 'attribution', to Robert Gale when using this image.
Maker
Robert Gale
Production date
28 Aug 1965
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
50mm (width), 50mm (height)
Credit line
Gifted by the Gale family and Alf Rendell
Accession number
0005/20/1299
Current rights

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