Six Taihape people are included in the North Island team competing in the New Zealand Gumboot Throwing champs in Queenstown on February 7-8.
The contest is part of the inaugural New Zealand Games in Queenstown.
Taihape Development Community Trust manager Elizabeth Mortland said the New Zealand Boot Throwing Association were organising raffles to raise funds to get the team to Queenstown and also to run the North Island Gumboot Throwing Championship at Gumboot Day on March 7 in Taihape.
Gumboot Day was first held in 1985 in Taihape and its purpose was to provide a promotional activity to entice travellers to stop and see what Taihape had to offer. Over the years it had grown into a national drawcard and its reputation had spread internationally, she said.
Last year the International Boot Throwing Association was formed and New Zealand became the only member in the Southern Hemisphere, which makes Taihape a player on the international scene of boot throwing.