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Description

This photograph shows a truck loaded with haybales to keep them out of the floodwaters. One of the men is Norm Terry. The truck was owned by a local carrier firm by the name of J.W. Cooksley. The 1953 Rangiotu Flood was one of the largest floods for the Oroua River on record.

Tautuhi

Momo rauemi
Image
Pākanga
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Tautuhi matihiko
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009480
E puritia ana ki
"IMCA Digital Archive"

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

Men rescuing hay bales, Rangiotu
Men rescuing hay bales, Rangiotu
Car on Flooded Road, Rangiotu Flood
Sheep Partially Stranded, Rangiotu Flood
Trapped Debris, Rangiotu Flood
Bourke's Drain, Rangiotu Flood
Bourke's Drain in flood, Rangiotu
Bourke's Drain during flood, Rangiotu
Rose's Store, Rangiotu Flood
Farm in Flood, Rangiotu Flood
Transport of Provisions to the Kahuterawa Valley
Staples Motor Workshop and House after Flood, Rangiotu

Pūnaha whakarōpū

Ngā tūtohu
agriculture,
disaster,
event recordings,
flooding,
labour,
men,
oroua river,
photographs,
river,
transport,
transportation,
water,
Tūtohu Hapori

Tuku kōrero mai mō te whakararu

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

Men rescuing hay bales, Rangiotu
Men rescuing hay bales, Rangiotu
Car on Flooded Road, Rangiotu Flood
Sheep Partially Stranded, Rangiotu Flood
Trapped Debris, Rangiotu Flood
Bourke's Drain, Rangiotu Flood
Bourke's Drain in flood, Rangiotu
Bourke's Drain during flood, Rangiotu
Rose's Store, Rangiotu Flood
Farm in Flood, Rangiotu Flood
Transport of Provisions to the Kahuterawa Valley
Staples Motor Workshop and House after Flood, Rangiotu