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Description

Two people boating in the floodwaters, taken from outside 147 Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North. The Manawatu River flooded about 250 hectares of the city. A stop bank between Fitzroy Street and Jickell Street had been constructed but it proved inadequate.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
IMCA Digital Archive 2011
Date
May 4, 1941
Digitisation ID
2011P_IMCA-DigitalLibrary_005570
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Taxonomy

Tags
bridges and waterways,
photographs,
Community Tags
flood,
natural disaster,
water,

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