lans to hold an exhibition at Wellington to mark the First Centenary of the Dominion of New Zealand had begun to materialise in 1938, when a 55 acre site was allocated by the New Zealand Government for the construction of suitable buildings and attractions. The central feature was to be a 150-foot Art Deco structure known as the Centennial Tower. The tower would be flanked by an extensive fountain with a centrepiece statue of a sea nymph riding a seahorse. On the ground floor within the Centennial Tower, engineers from New Zealand’s Department of Railways would build a working model railway on a scale large enough to carry
