No. 4 railway construction camp at Kopuawhara Valley near Māhia after a sudden flood that killed 21 people

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No. 4 railway construction camp at Kopuawhara Valley near Māhia after a sudden flood that killed 21 people

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Twenty-one people perished when raging flood waters swept away railway workers' homes in the darkness of early last Saturday morning: graphic pictures from the scene of the terrible disaster which overtook the Kopuawhara construction camp. Scene of tragic desolation after the disaster: a general view of the No. 4 railway construction camp at Kopuawhara taken early on Sunday morning. Debris and scant wreckage remained where formerly the camp for single men was located, on the stream which engu...

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1938-02-23

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Auckland Weekly News

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https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/287705

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Labor camps - Kopuawhara Valley / Floods - Hawke's Bay / Flooding - Hawke's Bay / Flood damage - Hawke's Bay / Natural disasters - Hawkes Bay

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