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The Great Clean-up

After the floods, came the time of the "great clean up". It was during this period of the emergeney that one of the biggest problems arose - sightseers. When the pic Above was taken, a line of cars stretched 500 yards along Waimea Road from Bishopdale and from the Ridgeway Road. In the middle of it all, trucks and a front end loader were hard at it removing a big, slushy landslide.

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Max Pike, 182 Waimea Road, had a solid job ahead of him after his driveway subsided during the flooding of the York Stream which runs alongside his house.

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Cleaning up outside St. Peter's Anglican Church, Tukuka Street, are Bishop Sutton and the Rev. G. Lee.

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Not all hillside properties escaped damage as can be seen from this pic of a property in Whitby Road

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Restoring emergency telephone lines across the Maitai River from Halifax Street

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This slip, which crashed into the bedroom of a house at 179 Tahunanui Drive, killed Mrs I. D. Navlor

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The footbridge linking Shakespeare Walk with Halifax Street was also lost

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Flood waters in Annesbrook left a huge deposit of silt behind them as they receded

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Another view of the home of Mr and Mrs H. Lewsley, Tahunanui Drive, showing the mass of rubble which almost buried the house

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The big clean-up did not reach its zenith until the following Saturday. During the week, at the behest of the City Council, Nelson Jaycees launched their "Operation Goodwill" and called for volunteers to leave beds at 7.30 a.m. on Saturday to help less fortunate flood victims to clean up. About 540 turned up and these were augmented by many more throughout the day. A tremendous effort by Jaycees, other service clubs, and all you wonderful Nelson volunteers.

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The clean-up troops arrive in the Brook Street area where heavy machinery is already on the job

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A working party leaves on assignment

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A central distributing point in Nile Street

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New Zealand Electricity Department workshop staff helping out

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Allen McKinstry, controller of Civil Defence welfare, shows helpers a trouble spot where help is needed at Atawhai.

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"Operation Goodwill" under way in Nile Street east.

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A Bailey Bridge was erected over the Maitai River by Black Hole.

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Ron Hill, of Brook Street, who lost his pigeon house when it was undermined in the last minor flood in the Brook Stream, this time lost his garage.

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This property in Halifax Street, just above the Municipal Pool, was inundated in Saturday night's flooding. The family was on the job early on Sunday cleaning up.

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The western abutment of the Bridge Street bridge suffered severe damage during the flood. It has acquired a lean towards the river and will have to be strengthened. The Council closed the bridge when the damage was seen. Here Bob Cox, a member of the contractor's staff, takes a good look at the cracks in the abutment.