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Advertising Wellington

This celebration of Wellington, ‘Hats off to Wellington’, appeared in the Evening Post in the mid-1980s. It was the work of the agency Dobbs-Wiggins-McCann-Erickson. Initially a local agency, the firm began to establish links with and gain investment from international firms from the 1950s.

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Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-Wellington-1980s-01

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Jock Phillips, Advertising – Advertising agencies, 1891–1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/22403/advertising-wellington (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2010.