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This photograph records the last meeting of the Legislative Council, the upper house of the New Zealand Parliament, on 1 December 1950. It was abolished by an act of Parliament earlier that year. Listen to press-gallery reporter Charles Wheeler describe the Legislative Chamber's role and how it came to be abolished – which he says was a 'constitutional revolution'.
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Reference: 32809
Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-019120-F
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