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Description

The 1953 flood of the Manawatu and Oroua Rivers was one of the worst on record, for the area. This photograph shows some sheep belonging to Norm Terry who are close to being caught in the Rangiotu Flood.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009492
Held In
"IMCA Digital Archive"

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Taxonomy

Tags
disaster,
event recordings,
fence line,
flooding,
hay,
livestock,
motor,
oroua river,
photographs,
river,
water,
wool,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,

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