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Tourist Department album 2
Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-498
Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm
[New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department] :New Zealand. The new day, the first ci...
Date: 1987
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1987-01
Description: Poster promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination. Shows two photographs, one of Auckland and one of Wellington, seen in the early morning light. Assumed to be published by Tourist and Publicity because of similar photographs appearing in their pamphlets at this time. Dated from similar photographs appearing in dated pamphlets produced by the Department. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on poster, 750 x 495 mm.