Holiday travel & tours in NSW

The object of publishing this Holiday Tour Booklet is to place in the hands of the visitor to New South Wales and the holiday-maker… information that will be of practical assistance in the selection of a suitable holiday resort…

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This holiday brochure is part of the series NRS 16410 – Albums of Travel and Advertising Brochures, 1938-1957. Handwritten on the cover of the booklet is “Prior to January 1938”.

The brochure covers a variety of tourist destinations in Sydney and surrounds, the north and south coasts and into the central west.

Sydney Technological Museum

Brooklyn & the Hawkesbury River

Aerial tours & Kuring-Gai Chase

Manly & Taronga Zoo

Berowra Waters & Kangaroo Point

Sydney to Newcastle

Kiama & Bulli Pass

Queanbeyan & Canberra

Orange & Goulburn

Nowra & Kurrajong Heights

Cooma & Kosciusko

Round tours & Kosciusko

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Sergeant Tracker Alexander ‘Alec’ Riley wearing his police uniform
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Convict farmer Antonio Roderigo and a ‘dastardly massacre’

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