Wilson was some 20 votes ahead of Luck; the other unsuccessful candidates were the working-class representative Samuel Paull Andrews and Jerningham Wakefield, who had represented Christchurch Country electorate in the 1st New Zealand Parliament.
The design competition for the building had been won by Samuel Hurst Seager, who was young and relatively inexperienced, and his design in Queen Anne style was an architectural type unfamiliar to New Zealand.
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