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The Waipara Vintage Festival started in 1978 and has been held biennially since 1995.  It is to support the Friends of Glenmark Church, an Incorporated Society which was formed in 1974 to assist in the maintenance and preservation of the historic community Church in Waipara, North Canterbury, New Zealand, as an architectural and community asset.

The Waipara Vintage Festival has been held the last six times on 'Wattle Grove', Mackenzies Rd, Waipara. 
Glenmark Church

The Weka Pass Railway support the Waipara Vintage Festival with a special time table, running steam train rides from a temporary 'halt' for the Festival adjacent to the festival site.


Steam Train


Previous years there has been exhibitions of many tractions engines, vintage tractors and cars,  stationery engines, vintage ploughing, draught horses, display by the Waipara Volunteer Fire Brigade, chaff cutting, tin mill display, dog trial and sheep shearing demonstration, military vehicles, aerial top dressing display, ground fertiliser spreading by a truck with a 'blower', and a variety of interesting stalls, including food supplied by local organisations as fundraisers. This opportunity for fundraising has also been appreciated by local organisations and schools.

 

Sites are available for $50 for the 2 days, available from phoning 03-3145834 or 03-3149335.

For further information phone 03-3146813.

Crop Duster

This year's Waipara Vintage Festival is going to be a wonderful family festival, located just up the road from the Weka Rass Railway's Glenmark railway station, Mackenzies Rd, Waipara.

With over 100 vintage tractors, headers, trucks and machinery of yester year on display over the two days, making it a great family outing to admire and respect agricultural progress, through the preservation of various machinery and the way farming has changed over the years.

The power house of many farms in those times was the Clydesdale horse, this year is the 100yr celebration of Clydesdales in New Zealand, and this year they will be providing wagon rides and giving ploughing demonstrations. Also included in the weekend entertainment will be a display of dog agility and sheep dog display by one of the local area's top sheep dog trialists.

Numourous local Waipara wineries will be on site in the wine marquee, providing wine tasting of Waipara's renown wine region.

A double decker bus and Unimog will be providing rides around the festival and there will also be a live Action military display and WWII Search light.

A display of farm animals, lambs, puppies, hens, along with a sheep shearing display will highlight everyday farming activities.

An aerial topdressing display is not to be missed and is a most spectacular event along with a truck doing ground spreading of fertiliser. The local Waipara Volunteer Fire Brigade will give a display in conjunction with a helicopter with a monsoon bucket on fire fighting, again a spectacular event.

The North Canterbury pipe band will be leading the Grand Parade which will be at 3.00pm both days. The Vintage Car Club will have various cars on display and the Harley Davidson motorbike club will also be displaying their bikes.

A wide variety of stalls selling art and craft items and hot food stalls are all on the grounds.

Plenty of toilets and we have free parking for everyone, EFTPOS will be available for gate entry only, no cash out.  Entrance fee is adults $12, children $5, pre-schoolers free.