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Lure of the Trail Programme No. 5: Eglinton Valley NZ Department of Tourist & Publicity, 1939
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Early Te Anau excursion posters © Pinterest |
In the late 1930s the New Zealand Department of Tourist and Publicity produced a series
of radio programmes to encourage New Zealanders to holiday within New Zealand rather
than travelling overseas.
This series, entitled "Lure of the Trail", was produced by Radio Features Ltd and aired
on the National Commercial Broadcasting Service stations 1ZB (Auckland), 2ZB (Wellington),
3ZB (Christchurch) and 4ZB (Dunedin).
In this episode we visit Te Anau and the Eglinton and Hollyford Valleys in the
Fiordland/Milford region of the South Island. These areas are compared to many
others world-wide.
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Digital audio © Radio Heritage Foundation
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Prints of the Eglinton & Hollyford Valleys by Graham Brinsley © www.prints.co.nz |
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"All roads lead to home, and the Government Tourist Bureau knows all the roads"
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Transfer docket between the ZB stations © Radio Heritage Foundation
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These records were found in a library sale in New York by one of our supporters, who
donated them by hand during a cruise to New Zealand!
The recordings are 12" 33⅓ rpm records that play from the inside out.
In the 1980s a similar media campaign was run using the catchphrase, "Don't leave town till you've seen the country", a slogan which is still
part of the Kiwi vernacular today.
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Some of the well-travelled packaging originally use to ship these records around NZ © Radio Heritage Foundation
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