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The Carterton Wheelbarrow Race is a uniquely Wairarapa event.

The race celebrates the story of one of the Wairarapa's earliest settlers, Samuel Oates. Family legend says that Samuel started working for Charles Rooking Carter (one of Carterton's founding fathers who the town is named after) almost as soon as he arrived in New Zealand in January 1856, assisting with the construction of a hotel and a butcher’s shop. Carter then asked him to take some goods to h

is Wairarapa farm. Samuel’s three-day journey over the Rimutakas, pulling and pushing a substantial wooden wheelbarrow, became Wairarapa legend. Samuel, thirsty after his long journey, pulled up outside the Rising Sun Hotel, in Greytown. He popped inside to quench his thirst, and on returning to his barrow, found that three of the gum trees Carter reputedly brought back from Australia, had been removed from the barrow.

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