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Lebanese wedding

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Lebanese wedding

In the 1890s there was increased ethnic diversity in New Zealand with the arrival of Dalmatians (Croatians) on the Northland kauri gumfields, and of some Lebanese, particularly in Dunedin. Here, members of the city’s Lebanese community celebrate a wedding.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Depression: 1885 to 1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2128/lebanese-wedding (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.