Gordon Brewer smoking inside his car in a flood.

A man with a pile of books at the North Canterbury Red Cross ...

John Collins outside his Colombo Street butchery.

A group of three Star of the Sea Convent students wearing ...

Schoolgirls caught in a storm on Colombo Street.

Reg Anderson carrying homing pigeons in flood on Carrick Road. ...

View of a Red Cross mobile disaster relief unit Land Rover with ...

Jock Lay Yee sits on scaffolding in flooded Kilmore Street.

Cars abandoned on Bealey Ave median strip.

A car being towed by a truck in flooded Gordon Avenue.

The Heathcote River floods Richardson Terrace and Clarendon ...

Ian Fisher, a coachbuilder at the Addington Railway Workshops, ...

View of the Addington water tower on the roof of the Addington ...

University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts senior students ...

A group of cousins sat on Cave Rock at Sumner near the beach ...

A view of Cavendish Park on Cavendish Road.

Ken and his friend Malcolm. Notice the Fred Dagg hat on ...

The Caldwell girls in a snow scene.

Joy at Caldwells.

Don't know much as bought in market. Still 5 digits in phone ...

Kaye Neely from Miramar Wellington, departing at Christchurch ...

A well attended turnout for this event nearly 40 years ago. The ...

Street scene of buses, cars and cyclists on the corner of High ...

View of cars travelling along Colombo Street towards Cathedral ...