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Description

The huge flood of late January 1953 covering the Te Matai Road area, as photographed by Mark Dawson from high ground in the vicinity of James Line. This photograph was taken near James line, looking down from the terrace across the Te Matai Road area, towards the Tararua Ranges.
See ‘A Time of Transition’ by Val Burr, page 86.

Tautuhi

Momo rauemi
Image
Pākanga
Public Photograph Collection Wh 29
Date
January 28, 1953
Tautuhi matihiko
2014N_Wh29_009196
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Coolstore

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Pūnaha whakarōpū

Ngā tūtohu
natural disaster,
photographs,
rural towns and life,
stoney creek,
water,
Tūtohu Hapori
flood,

Tuku kōrero mai mō te whakararu

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

Army Truck in 1953 Flood
Whakarongo Hall function
Whakarongo 'Bridge to Nowhere'
Flood of 1965 - Pioneer Highway
Flood of 1965 - Pioneer Highway
Scenes from Palmeston North, c1936
Flood of 1965 - Pioneer Highway
Flood of 1965 - Pioneer Highway
Flood of 1965 - Pioneer Highway
Flood of 1965 - Manawatū River from Fitzherbert Bridge
Flood of 1965 - Fitzherbert Bridge
Grocery truck driving through flood waters on Armstrong Street