Kōrero: Floods

Collecting relief funds

People standing in a shop with bags labelled ‘Southland Flood Relief’.

Emergency relief funds are usually set up after major disasters. After the 1984 Southland floods there was a major effort to collect funds in Lower Hutt, which had itself been badly affected by flooding a few years earlier.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP/1984/0762/21A

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Eileen McSaveney, 'Floods - Southland floods and Cyclone Bola', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4888/collecting-relief-funds (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Eileen McSaveney, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006, reviewed & revised 1 Feb 2024