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Although air travel was becoming more popular, passenger steamships were still plying the Tasman after the Second World War. This 1948 sketch depicts the luxurious first-class lounge of the Monowai, which carried many New Zealanders to and from Australia in the post-war years.
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Reference: B-011-025
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