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SPRING COACH TOURS FROM AOTEAROA TRAVEL ★ 3 DAY SCENIC ALPINE Visits Hanmer, Westport, Greymouth $74.00 Departs 18th September. ★ 4 DAY SCENIC NELSONIAN Visits Greymouth, Westport, Nelson $114.00 Departs 2nd October ★ 5 DAY SCENIC HAAST Visits Wanaka, Haast, Fox, Hanmer $142.00 Departs 18th September. ★ 7 DAY SCENIC SOUTH Visits Dunedin, Queenstown, Fox, Greymouth $210.50 Departs 22nd September. Book now with your nearest Travel Agent or AOTEAROA TRAVEL 95 Gloucester Street, Telephone 67-253

In 1901 we started to blaze new trails in New Zealand travel yrfiMyy ' s * BKISBg ; « 1901. That year, it took two whole days to changed. The Department exists to encourage travel from Tauranga to Thames. A day to New Zealand travel by New Zealanders and to reach Wanganui from Wellington. Three-and- promote New Zealand to people overseas. a-half days to cover the distance between When we opened for business, travel was adChristchurch and Blenheim, the same for venture. Distances, conditions and methods of Queenstown—Dunedin. 1901 was also the transport made even short journeys a year when the Department of Tourist & Health challenge. There was fun, excitement and not Resorts, forerunner of today’s Tourist & a small measure of hardship to be faced. Publicity Department, opened its first travel The traveller in New Zealand now enjoys high bureau —an advisory and ticket selling office standards of service, accommodation and which has grown to a national and interna- transport even in the remotest areas. tional travel service. In this way New Zealand In 1901 we started to blaze new trails in New was possibly the first country to establish a Zealand travel. 75 years later the Tourist & Governmental agency to promote its tourist at- Publicity Department is still effectively promottractions. ing New Zealand travel to New Zealanders. 1n75 years our aims in the travel field have not and to the world. NEW ZEALAND TOURIST & PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT ‘A2M