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Poster of sunny Napier

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Poster of sunny Napier

By the mid-1950s, when this pamphlet was issued, the idea of beautiful New Zealand extended to its beaches. Here Napier is promoted as 'New Zealand's ocean play ground'.  Summer at the beach became part of the identity of New Zealanders.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Napier-1955-01-front

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Fiona Barker, New Zealand identity – The land, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/34603/poster-of-sunny-napier (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Fiona Barker, published 17 April 2012.