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Description

The 1953 flooding of the Manawatu and Oroua River was one of the worst on record for the area. This photograph shows the house belonging to Norm Terry flooded, taken from the Main Road.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009491
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
disaster,
event recordings,
flooding,
motor,
norman,
oroua river,
photographs,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,
water,

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