New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island
Production date
1926
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Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2019-23.4
Description
Guide for motorists and motorcyclists traveling New Zealand with through routes, camping grounds, table of distances and sectional maps. Includes hints to motorists, government tourism bureaux and resorts, tour routes with maps, places en route, miles between, road surfaces and general descriptions, and advertisements.
"In this revision... the publishers have had in view the ever-increasing requirements of motorists and travellers for recent and complete information in regard to the roads and routes throughout the country, and the need of placing before the public particulars of newer and lesser known thoroughfares.
Through tours around the whole of the Island and along the main central districts, together with a complete net-work of cross-country connecting routes, have been provided.
By the help of these, together with a new Table of Distances, tourists will be enabled to map out and plan their tours having before them a concise description of the roads they will have to travel and the distances they must cover on their journey.
For the guidance of motorists to whom the Camping Tour particularly appeals, a list of camping sites has been included." - preface
Contents: table of distances / foreword / index to advertisers / index to tours / reference index / passage of cattle and stock / kawhia caves / nz automobile associations / traffic signals / list of hotels / camping sites / tours / sectional maps
"In this revision... the publishers have had in view the ever-increasing requirements of motorists and travellers for recent and complete information in regard to the roads and routes throughout the country, and the need of placing before the public particulars of newer and lesser known thoroughfares.
Through tours around the whole of the Island and along the main central districts, together with a complete net-work of cross-country connecting routes, have been provided.
By the help of these, together with a new Table of Distances, tourists will be enabled to map out and plan their tours having before them a concise description of the roads they will have to travel and the distances they must cover on their journey.
For the guidance of motorists to whom the Camping Tour particularly appeals, a list of camping sites has been included." - preface
Contents: table of distances / foreword / index to advertisers / index to tours / reference index / passage of cattle and stock / kawhia caves / nz automobile associations / traffic signals / list of hotels / camping sites / tours / sectional maps
Media/Materials
Physical description
228 pages : maps, illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Edition
7th
Other title
The New Zealand Motorists' Road Guide (North Island)
Credit line
1926. New Zealand motorists' road guide for the North Island, PUB-2019-23.4. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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