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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 group of young people getting a boat out during the 1953 Rangiotu Flood.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009476
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
boating,
disaster,
event recordings,
photographs,
water,
Community Tags
boat,
flood,
natural disaster,

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