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Promoting holidays: winter skiing

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Promoting holidays: winter skiing

The Tourist and Publicity Department produced eye-catching posters encouraging people to take holidays at resorts, including skifields. This 1950s poster promises fun on a winter skiing holiday.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950s-03

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Nancy Swarbrick, Holidays – Holidays away from home, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/40744/promoting-holidays-winter-skiing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 January 2013.