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| Address | 22 Elm Street, Avondale, Auckland 1026 |
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| Coordinates | 36°53′49″S174°41′28″E / 36.897°S 174.691°E |
Avondale Racecourse is a horse racing venue in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand. First established in 1888, the racecourse has been used as a military training facility and as a temporary hospital. Currently the racecourse is used as a venue for the Avondale Jockey Club, sports fields for rugby union, rugby league, soccer and cricket, as a location of the Avondale Sunday Markets.
The racecourse was first opened in 1888, with the original grandstand replaced in 1902. [1] During the First World War, the racecourse was used as a military camp for the 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles from 1912, and from 1913 as an airfield. [1] On 13 April 1913, Frederik E. Sandford flew the rebuilt biplane Manurewa at the racecourse; a biplane formerly owned and flown by the Walsh Brothers before it crashed. [2] [3] After the war, the racecourse became a temporary hospital for the 1918 flu pandemic. [1] In 1923, the site was used for motorcycle races. During World War II, the racecourse was again put into use as a training facility. [1]
In 1989 the Avondale Jockey Club sold off a large portion of land, which was re-developed as housing. [1]
Attendance at racecourse events have declined in the 21st century, however the venue has been renewed attendance due to the refurbishment of the Ellerslie Racecourse. The Avondale Jockey Club's thoroughbred racing licence ends in 2026. [4]
The Avondale Sunday Market is one of the largest regular markets in New Zealand, [5] first established in the 1970s, [6] and developed due to the growth of migration of different ethnic groups to Auckland. [7]
New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located along the Whau River, one of the narrowest points of the North Island, and was the location of Te Tōanga Waka, a traditional waka portage between the Waitematā and Manukau harbours.
The Whau River is an estuarial arm of the southwestern Waitemata Harbour within the Auckland metropolitan area in New Zealand. It flows north for 5.7 kilometres (3.5 mi) from its origin at the confluence of the Avondale Stream and Whau Stream to its mouth between the Te Atatū Peninsula and the long, thin Rosebank Peninsula in Avondale. It is 800 metres (2,600 ft) at its widest and 400 metres (1,300 ft) wide at its mouth.
The racing of Thoroughbred horses is a popular gaming and spectator sport and industry in New Zealand.
The Auckland Cup is an annual race held by the Auckland Racing Club (ARC). It is an Open Handicap for thoroughbred racehorses competed on the flat turf over 3200 metres at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand.
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The following lists events that happened during 1913 in New Zealand.
The Championship Stakes, run at Ellerslie Racecourse, is a Group 3 horse race run for three-year-olds at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1888 in New Zealand.
Avondale is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Located on the central western Auckland isthmus, it is located in the Whau local board area, one of the 21 administrative divisions for the Auckland Council.
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John Bollard was an independent conservative, then Reform Party (1908), Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was elected to the Eden electorate in the 1896 general election, and retired in 1914.
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The Hollywood Cinema, also known as the Hollywood or the Hollywood Avondale, is a cinema and performing arts theatre in the suburb of Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand. Under different names and management, the business and the building evolved from the council-administrated Avondale Public Hall built in 1867. Following a name change and installation of a new frontage in 1915, the Hall was leased to Harry Empson, who showed movies in the venue from 1916 to August 1927 when he sold the business to Frederick William. In 1923 the original building was moved to the adjacent lot and a new venue constructed behind the frontage. Notwithstanding the challenges of providing talkie movies and competing cinemas in neighbouring suburbs, a succession of managers, including the family of Rudall Hayward, ran the picture theatre until 1966 when the business was acquired by Jan Grefstad, who named it the Hollywood Cinema. During Grefstad's time, the Hollywood was known for the weekly midnight showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the installation of a Wurlitzer Organ. After Grefstad died in 2001, the business was managed by a family trust before being sold on the open market in 2015. As of 2024 it continues to host classic, cult, revival and marathon screenings as well as selected concerts and events.
Eden Ramblers was a rugby league club in Auckland which played in the Auckland Rugby League competition from 1911 to 1913. They were based in the Avondale suburb of Auckland where they largely trained and played and held meetings in Point Chevalier.
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