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Kōrero: Kiwis overseas

Qantas Airways menu, c. 1959

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Qantas Airways menu, c. 1959

In the late 1950s and early 1960s air travel was largely the domain of the wealthy, as this menu indicates. But by the 2000s those flying across the Tasman were unlikely to be served up seafood canapé or beef tenderloin.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-Qantas-1959-01-03

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Kiwis overseas – Migration to Australia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/1128/qantas-airways-menu-c-1959 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 17 September 2014.