Story: Holidays

More links and websites

• AA: Camping in New Zealand

  An overview of the types of campsites in New Zealand.

• Employment New Zealand

  Information on New Zealand public holidays and holiday legislation.

More suggestions and sources

• Alsop, Peter, Gary Stewart, and Dave Bamford, eds. Selling the dream: the art of early New Zealand tourism. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2012.

• Barnett, Stephen and Richard Wolfe. At the beach: the great New Zealand holiday. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.

• Clarke, Alison. Holiday seasons: Christmas, New Year and Easter in 19th century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

• Daley, Caroline. Leisure and pleasure: reshaping and revealing the New Zealand body, 1900–1960. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

• Martin, John E. Holding the balance: a history of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891–1995. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1996.

• Verry, Angela M. ‘I’m going to see New Zealand too! The New Zealand Railways Publicity Branch and family holidays during the interwar period’. BA hons thesis (History), Otago University, 2004.