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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 a car on a flooded road near Bourke's Drain during the Rangiotu Flood. The photograph was taken from the Main Road looking towards Palmerston North.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009483
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
automobile,
bourk's,
bourkes,
disaster,
event recordings,
flooding,
oroua river,
photographs,
river,
transport,
transportation,
water,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,
truck,
water,

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