A race round New Zealand

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[New Zealand]. The Game of Round the Dominion. The Eastern Highway.

JOHNSON BROTHERS
Harborne,
Chad Valley Company Ltd.,
[1907].
Offset colour-printed playing board, folded vertically in the middle; cardboard box with colour-printed label on lid, printed rules inside lid, containing four coloured counters and wooden tumbler; box's corners a little worn.
360 by 360mm. (14.25 by 14.25 inches).
17506

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The game is designed for 2, 3, or 4 participants who race their clippers to the centre of the map, which is divided into a spiral of 196 squares; the winner is the first to land on the last square, Wellington. The hazards the clippers have to go through include storms, contrary winds, and wrecks; all of which send the player back several squares.

Interestingly, there are no steamships plying the waters around New Zealand, and clippers had ceased to trading in th...

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