Brochures out - excitement mounts

Irene Sparks (right) delivers brochures yesterday, helped by Pauline Webber. Photo by Sally Rae.
Irene Sparks (right) delivers brochures yesterday, helped by Pauline Webber. Photo by Sally Rae.
Oamaru Victorian heritage celebrations co-ordinator Irene Sparks was thrilled to finally be able to deliver the celebrations' brochures around businesses yesterday.

The brochures had to be hurriedly reprinted after 20,000 copies were lost in a truck fire near Christchurch last week, while on the way to be collated.

It was "very exciting" to take delivery of the brochures on Thursday, Mrs Sparks said.

The celebrations will begin with the Oamaru Harness Racing Club's heritage race meeting on November 17.

As part of the programme, races for invited drivers will be held with the theme of brother-brother pairs.

In addition to five New Zealand teams - Ken and Clark Barron, David and Philip Butcher, John and Dexter Dunn, Gerard and Leo O'Reilly and Nathan and Matthew Williamson - Daryl and Glenn Douglas, from Australia, will create the sixth team and a transtasman battle.

The meeting will include a dual sulky celebrity race, arrival of the penny-farthing tour, Victorian fashion-in-the-field and a horse and carriage parade.

 

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