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Pictures From The Past

From Miss Enid Wilson, Ormond Road, come these two pictures of the 1948 flood at Te Karaka.

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When the Nisbett house and its occupants were marooned by the waters a dramatic rescue was effected by neighbours and friends using rafts made from empty oil drums.

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One lone black dog only is game enough to cross the Kanakanaia Bridge where the flood gauge measured a rise of 31 feet!