Kōrero: Holidays

First-class lounge on the Monowai

First-class lounge on the Monowai

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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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-011-025

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Nancy Swarbrick, 'Holidays - Overseas holidays', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/40757/first-class-lounge-on-the-monowai (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013