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Description

This photograph shows Bourke's Drain during a flood at Rangiotu, one of the largest floods for the Oroua River on record. The photograph was taken on the main road looking towards Palmerston North and was taken when the flood was nearing its peak.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_009484
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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