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Description

This photograph shows the Staples Motor Workshop and the house next door after the floodwaters had abated. 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_009500
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
disaster,
event recordings,
flooding,
oroua river,
photographs,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,
water,

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