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The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition took place over six months from Wednesday 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940. It celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand. 2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition. The New Zealand Government staged the exhibition with assistance from local government, New Zealand industry and the New Zealand public. The exhibition received support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Fiji and other Pacific islands who either constructed their own pavilions on site or had displays in one of the exhibition buildings. ==Location== The exhibition took for its site a location at Rongotai〔('The Centennial Exhibition - New Zealand Centennial, 1940' at nzhistory.net.nz )〕 in Wellington, Edmund Anscombe designing the buildings and grounds in the Art Deco style. Construction began on April 27, 1939 by the firm Fletcher and Love Construction Companies and over 1,000 staff were employed in the process of building the exhibition. The exhibition grounds were just over in size, with the main buildings accounting for around of this. Feature structures included: * the Centennial Tower, the main focus of attention, standing tall and weighing 700 tons. This icon featured on many of the souvenirs celebrating the exhibition. * a statue of a Neriad (a sea-woman on a seahorse) standing in the central fountain. * the New Zealand Railways Department stand featuring a working model-railway constructed to scale and maintained by Frank Roberts (model maker). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Zealand Centennial Exhibition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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