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Kōrero: Lakes

Promoting tourism

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Promoting tourism

Lakes have often been used to advertise the beauty of New Zealand. This 1933 poster presents two generic southern lake scenes, as part of a New Zealand Railways campaign to encourage rail travel.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Southland-1933-01

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Simon Nathan, Lakes – Recreation and other uses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/11824/promoting-tourism (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.