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The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition ran from 8 November 1939 to 4 May 1940. During this time 2,641,043 people went through the main gates with a daily average attendance of 17,149
The 1940 Centennial, planned for five years and publicly funded, was a deliberate act of national self-definition by the first Labour government.