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Description

The 1953 flooding of the Manawatu and Oroua Rivers was one of the worst on record for the area. This photograph shows Bourke's Drain during the Rangiotu Flood, taken from the Main Road looking towards Palmerston North.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009482
Held In
"IMCA Digital Archive"

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Taxonomy

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

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