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Kōrero: Skiing

Chairlift

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Chairlift

The chairlift is the most comfortable way to ascend the slopes. This single chairlift at Mt Ruapehu was the first in New Zealand, opening in 1954.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-New Zealand Recreation-Skiing-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

Andrew Troup, Skiing – Commercial skifields, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11856/chairlift (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Andrew Troup, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.