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Promoting tourism

Promoting tourism

Lakes have often been used to advertise the beauty of New Zealand. This 1933 poster presents two generic southern lake scenes, as part of a New Zealand Railways campaign to encourage rail travel.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Southland-1933-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Simon Nathan. 'Lakes', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 25-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/lakes/4/1