Remains of the day... (c.1925)
South of Brighton at Kuri Bush, Otago coast.
This rusty structure is one of the few remaining structures from the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition 1925-26.
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The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was held in Dunedin Nov.1925-May 1926.
It celebrated NZ and the South Seas, and was the third such exhibition to be held in Dunedin (earlier exhibitions in 1865 and 1889).
Although NZ's population was then only 1.25 million, more than 3 million visitors came through the gates of the Exhibition.
The buildings consisted of a series of pavilions surrounding a central court area, dominated by a domed festival hall, and covering 16 acres.
The exhibition grounds and buildings included an amusement park with a quarter-mile scenic railway loop, restaurant, tearooms, displays from both NZ provinces and overseas countries, and "courts" set up by the UK, Canada, Australia, and Fiji.
Some sections of some of the exhibition's buildings were later sold off and moved to other sites, most notably a small domed structure (see attached pic below), now part of the South Seas Art Gallery at Brighton, south of Dunedin.
Further south, on a farm property at Kuri Bush, can be found this: the collapsing remains of one of the exhibition pavilions...
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Many thanx to the lovely lady on Dicksons Rd., Kuri Bush, who allowed me to photograph this close-up from over her back fence.
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UPDATE: This old structure collapsed in high winds, late 2015, as reported in the Otago Daily Times: [www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/winds-bring-down-historic-buil...]
Remains of the day... (c.1925)
South of Brighton at Kuri Bush, Otago coast.
This rusty structure is one of the few remaining structures from the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition 1925-26.
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The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was held in Dunedin Nov.1925-May 1926.
It celebrated NZ and the South Seas, and was the third such exhibition to be held in Dunedin (earlier exhibitions in 1865 and 1889).
Although NZ's population was then only 1.25 million, more than 3 million visitors came through the gates of the Exhibition.
The buildings consisted of a series of pavilions surrounding a central court area, dominated by a domed festival hall, and covering 16 acres.
The exhibition grounds and buildings included an amusement park with a quarter-mile scenic railway loop, restaurant, tearooms, displays from both NZ provinces and overseas countries, and "courts" set up by the UK, Canada, Australia, and Fiji.
Some sections of some of the exhibition's buildings were later sold off and moved to other sites, most notably a small domed structure (see attached pic below), now part of the South Seas Art Gallery at Brighton, south of Dunedin.
Further south, on a farm property at Kuri Bush, can be found this: the collapsing remains of one of the exhibition pavilions...
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Many thanx to the lovely lady on Dicksons Rd., Kuri Bush, who allowed me to photograph this close-up from over her back fence.
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UPDATE: This old structure collapsed in high winds, late 2015, as reported in the Otago Daily Times: [www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/winds-bring-down-historic-buil...]