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Kōrero: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand

Tent hotel in Taranaki

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Tent hotel in Taranaki

Few foreign travellers to New Zealand would have had to put up with accommodation such as this small tent hotel in Taranaki, pictured around 1910 – but they often criticised the primitive nature of the accommodation and eating places.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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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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Jock Phillips, Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand – The ‘Britain of the South’, 1860–1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/37103/tent-hotel-in-taranaki (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 23 May 2012.