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Kōrero: Employer and business organisations

First national meeting

First national meeting

The first annual meeting of the Association of the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce was held in 1916 in Wellington. The 33 representatives of regional chambers who attended are shown here in front of the Dominion Farmers Building, on the corner of Featherston and Ballance streets.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington Chamber of Commerce

Reference: PAColl-5676-2-01

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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Megan Cook, Employer and business organisations – Chambers of commerce, 1850s–2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24709/first-national-meeting (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.