View of the Manawatu River, Rangiotu Flood

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Description: This photograph shows the Manawatu River, taken during the 1953 Rangiotu Flood, one of the worst on record for the area.

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Relation: Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date: February 1953
Digitisation id: 2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009493
Held in: IMCA Digital Archive

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Created By: J Moore
Place: Rangiotu, Manawatu

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Tags: disaster; event recordings; flooding; motor; oroua river; photographs

Community Tags: flood; natural disaster; water

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J Moore. "View of the Manawatu River, Rangiotu Flood", Manawatū Heritage, Ian Matheson City Archives, https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/2c44d227-a210-416a-af25-3763d90554ea, accessed 2026-09-04 11:26.

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