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Lure of the Trail
Programme No. 6: The Glaciers
NZ Department of Tourist & Publicity, 1939
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).
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Red Lion Hotel, Gibson Quay, Hokitika 1940s. Our intrepid traveller
may have taken refereshment here before taking the motor highway south down the West Coast.
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In this episode our intrepid traveller spurns the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol to take the
motor highway from Hokitika and travel south to the Franz Josef & Fox glaciers.
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Vintage Franz Josef travel poster & Painting of Franz Josef Airfield, 1938
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Digital audio © Radio Heritage Foundation
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Early photo of Fox Glacier
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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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