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Description

This photograph shows the Staples Motor Workshop after it had been flooded during the 1953 Rangiotu Flood. Note the motorbike in the foreground of the photograph. The 1953 flooding of the Manawatu and Oroua River was one of the worst on record for the area.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009494
Held In
"IMCA Digital Archive"

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Taxonomy

Tags
atlantic petrol,
disaster,
event recordings,
flooding,
garage,
motor,
oroua river,
photographs,
Community Tags
motorcycle,
natural disaster,
water,

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