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Collecting relief funds

Collecting relief funds

Emergency relief funds are usually set up after major disasters. After the 1984 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

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Eileen McSaveney. 'Floods', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 24-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/floods/4/2