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Kōrero: Holidays

Promoting holidays: a summer break

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Promoting holidays: a summer break

From 1927 the New Zealand Railways Publicity Branch began campaigns to persuade people to travel by train rather than car on their holidays. This 1930s poster depicts the range of possible summer destinations, and suggests the economy of rail in comparison with car travel.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAOK W3241 1/31

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Nancy Swarbrick, Holidays – Holidays away from home, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/40745/promoting-holidays-a-summer-break (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 24 January 2013.