Rescue party officials at Tangiwai

Rescue party officials at Tangiwai

Rescue party officials at Tangiwai. At left are Inspector Willis Brown and Senior Sergeant Roy Griffiths.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Morrie Peacock Collection
Reference: PAColl-4875, 35/39 A32
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Rescue party officials at Tangiwai, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/rescue-party-officials-tangiwai, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Jun-2014

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Anonymous Posted: 3 Nov 2008

i hate to think that soo many people lost their lives in the tangiwai disaster.

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Regan Kingston Posted: 6 Sep 2009

We should be so grateful that we have so many people who risked their lives to save other peoples lives in the dangerous situation that they faced.

But the disaster is still very sad and to think that it might, just might, have been prevented

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