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Excellent history of Parliament buildings is on this site: Click on the left hand column links to view the history and photographs - recommended QUOTE: A History of Parliament Buildings: The Early Buildings The first government houses New Zealand Company surveyors reserved land for a future Government House between Lambton Quay and Sydney Street (which then ran from what is today Sydney Street West right through to the bottom of Mulgrave Street). Here in 1840 Colonel William Wakefield, brother to Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the New Zealand Company's Principal Agent in New Zealand, assembled a prefabricated house for his residence. In 1847, with the prospective establishment of the 'provinces' of New Ulster and New Munster, the Crown Colony government purchased the property. It became 'Government House' for New Munster, the official residence of Lieutenant-Governor Eyre who extended the building at public expense. When New Munster and the Lieutenant-Governorship were disestablished in 1853, the new government retained the house as the Wellington residence of the colonial Governor, even though Auckland was then the nation's capital. A new Government House designed by Colonial Architect William Clayton replaced the original building on the same site in 1871. JUST a sample of the information - see photo there also. Click on GOVERNMENT BUILDING ALBUM to view our selection of postcard images - great starting catalogue which could assemble a great exhibition collection cheaply. (Nobody collects these type of postcards it seems - Perhaps due to all the ear bashing we get from there on local NEWS (TV) Heres some of the images below. Government Buildings, Wellington City, postcard  Wellington Parliament Buildings JPS Series, Plimmer Photographer  Fire Parliament Buildings Wellington Postcard Dec 11th 1907.  Government Buildings, Wellington Black and white postcard from early 1900's depicting the Government Buildings, Wellington. (largest wooden building in the world.) Unused S.M. & Co Series postcard . Photo by Tomlinson. S&M issued cards between 1902 and 1906 so it would have been issued around this time.  Houses of Parliament Wellington postcard  House of Representatives Wellington Postcard (The Modern One)
 Wellington, The Governors Residence, postcard  Blenheim Government Buildings & Horse & Trap W Macey photo .jpg) Government Buildings (Napier) TO VIEW THE ALBUM OF 39 IMAGES - CLICK - GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS ALBUM
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