Car on Flooded Road, Rangiotu Flood

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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.

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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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Created By: J Moore
Place: Manawatu

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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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J Moore. "Car on Flooded Road, Rangiotu Flood", Manawatū Heritage, Ian Matheson City Archives, https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/53337d66-8c2b-4e3f-a8e7-bdfe698a6b40, accessed 2026-08-19 00:54.

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