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Marble columns

New Zealand Parliament House with Beehive in background

The columns and walls of Parliament House (the central buildings of the parliamentary complex) are made of grey Tākaka marble from Kairuru quarry – marble is metamorphosed limestone.

Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk/Parliamentary Services’ which is licensed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and/or the Parliamentary Corporation on behalf of Parliamentary Service for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. 

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