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, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1984/0762/21A
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