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Civic Square crowd

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Civic Square crowd

A crowd watches a Christmas light show in Wellington’s Civic Square in 1994. Events such as this have made the space popular with many Wellingtonians.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3904/22a

by Mark Coote

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ben Schrader, City planning – Planning renaissance, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25757/civic-square-crowd (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 3 March 2010, updated 26 March 2015.