Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Flood-damaged bridge, Clive, 1897 (1 o 4)

Flood-damaged bridge, Clive, 1897

Heavy rain inundated Hawke’s Bay in April 1897. The floods that followed caused serious damage to infrastructure. This flood-swollen river knocked out half of the trusses on the railway bridge at Clive.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-8256

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Kerryn Pollock, 'Hawke’s Bay region - Landscape and climate', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23830/flood-damaged-bridge-clive-1897 (accessed 2 June 2023)

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, updated 1 Jul 2015