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Stokes Valley flooding

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Stokes Valley flooding

Children make their way through flood water in a Stokes Valley neighbourhood (north of Wellington city) on 13 March 1990. Floods like this have a devastating effect if water enters houses. People need to be evacuated and possessions have to be replaced.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1990/0942/4

by Phil Reid

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Eileen McSaveney and Simon Nathan, Natural hazards – overview – Being prepared, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6915/stokes-valley-flooding (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Eileen McSaveney and Simon Nathan, published 2 March 2009.