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NZ International Exhibition 1906

Line pair with selvege featuring the Premier Mr Seddon (born 1845 in Lancashire)
who died soon after.

Printed by Lyttleton press:
The first issue of the Lyttelton Times presented here, appeared on January 11 1851
just 26 days after the printing presses arrived on board the Charlotte Jane on
December 16 1850.

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The New Zealand International Exhibition was held in Christchurch from 1 November
1906 to 15 April 1907.

It was the brainchild of Richard Seddon, Premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his
death on 10 June 1906, just a few months before the Exhibition opened.
Laying the stone:
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Despite the substantial financial loss incurred by the Exhibition, it was deemed to be a
success. With nearly 2 million visitors, attendance exceeded expectations - New
Zealand's total population at the time was less than 1 million.

A round cyclorama building from the USA showed a painted story of the battle of
Gettysburg in 1863 with a sound show and very noisy guns.

Children visiting the exhibit noticed that the cyclorama was painted as if the battle had
happened yesterday and showed machinery that had not been invented in 1883, much
to the horror of the exhibitors.

Competitions were held for every sphere of craft, with gold, silver and bronze
medals awarded to winners. Among them needlework, Ava Whimp from Rangiora has
a pinafore her mother had made for the competition that was awarded a medal.

Laurence Ealge said, "stamps and post cards were popular at the exhibition and are
still very collectable today.” During the 100-year celebrations of the exhibition the
Convention Centre at Addington will display stamps from the exhibition.

Ealge said, “The Christchurch International exhibition was considered such a great
success that people visiting realized New Zealand was not only up with the rest of the
world but in many respects way ahead of it. This was not lost on the politicians they
said, New Zealand as a colony needed to be self-governing and to control its own
destiny.”

On the 26th September 1907 New Zealand became a Dominion and was no longer
tied to Britain.

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