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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 water level gauge next to the railway bridge on the Oroua River.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
February 1953
Digitisation ID
2014p_imca-digitalmaster_009477
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

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

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