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The long, extending table dates from around 1880 and seats as many
as 26 guests. The room’s furnishings include a Sallé
carpet, floor-to-ceiling chintz curtains, an ornate brass candelabrum
and the Vogel Silver (given to the House by Mrs Jocelyn Vogel, the
widow of Prime Minister Sir Julius Vogel’s grandson).
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the hallmarks of a formal dinner in the State Dining
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The State Dining Room also contains the remarkable and very valuable portrait
collection given to the House by Lord Norrie, at the end of his term as
Governor-General, in 1957. In presenting the paintings to Prime Minister
Holland, Sir Willoughby (later Lord) Norrie said he was presenting the collection
to thank New Zealand for the five happiest years of his life.
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