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Kōrero: Beach culture

Timaru poster, 1937

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Timaru poster, 1937

By the interwar years the beach had become a place for bathing in the sun and the sea. In posters such as this one, Timaru set out to attract visitors to Caroline Bay for swimming and commercial amusements.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C27960

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

Jock Phillips, Beach culture – Beach recreation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/9114/timaru-poster-1937 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.