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Nightcaps and the influenza pandemic

Nightcaps in Southland suffered one if the highest death rates in the country during the 1918 influenza pandemic – 45.9 per 1000 people died.

Riverton South African War memorial

Riverton First World War memorial

Riverton war memorial, including names

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