More Info →"Moves to Prevent Further Erosion"

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 May, 1959. "Yesterday, with the Manawatu River in flood, men were at work placing trees and barrels of sand along the banks at a point near the end of Ruahine Street in an effort to prevent the river from eating into the stopbanks." Other photos associated with this article was published on the same day.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

May 21, 1959

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_015189

Format

B&W negative