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Kōrero: Public gardens

Queens Park, 1953

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Queens Park,1953

Invercargill’s Queens Park is an 81-hectare green space in the centre of the city. The path that leads from the main entrance to the band rotunda, known as Coronation Avenue, is lined with English beech and silver birch trees. Queen Elizabeth II attended a civic reception at the band rotunda during her 1953–54 visit to New Zealand.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Archives New Zealand: National Publicity Studios Collection

Reference: 1/2-020866; F

by K. V. Bigwood

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Public gardens – Municipal public gardens, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18822/queens-park-1953 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.