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.
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Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Date
- February 1953
- Digitisation ID
- 2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009500
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
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Creation
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- J Moore
- Place
- Manawatu
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