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3 days ago · A bronze “state in mourning” statue has been removed from the tomb of former premier Richard Seddon for fears it may come loose in an earthquake and land on a Wellington home.
Richard John Seddon PC (22 June 1845 – 10 June 1906) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier (prime minister) of New Zealand from 1893 until his death. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government .
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His prominent statue outside Parliament Buildings has come to represent the authority of the state in New Zealand. The labour movement was later to invoke his name and memory, claiming to carry on the humanitarian tradition of Seddonian Liberal politics.
Stout was out. After winning the 1893 election, Seddon entrenched the major Liberal reforms to land, labour and taxation previously thwarted by the upper house. He even took credit for enfranchising women, a reform he had opposed.
Known as ‘King Dick’, Seddon had dominated New Zealand politics since the early 1890s. The Liberal government that he headed as Premier from 1893 established the tradition of state-supported welfare in this country. Seddon died at sea while returning from Australia to what he called ‘God’s own country’.
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The West Coast coalmining settlement of Seddonville, 50 kms north of Westport, was named in honour of the Liberal Premier Richard Seddon. It was also the site of an early experiment in state socialism – New Zealand's first state coal mine opened there in 1903. Read the full article.
