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Name/title Maker Production date Description
Lime Product Sample Agricultural Lime Lime Product Sample Agricultural Lime
Circa 1970s
A glass jar with a white metal lid containing white powder.

The typewritten label reads:

Sample of agricultural lime, calcium carbonate CaCO3 From Taylor's Lime Co. Ltd, Weston. Employs seven men. Quarries and crushed approximately 65,000 tons limestone annually. Sells approximately 50,000 tons of output for agricultural purposes and 15,000 tons of output for industrial use - to McDonald's Oamaru Lime Ltd.
Lime Product Sample Calcium Hydroxide Lime Product Sample Calcium Hydroxide
Circa 1970s
A glass jar with a white metal lid containing white powder.

The typewritten label reads: Sample Hydrated Lime Calcium hydroxide. From McDonald's Oamaru Lime Ltd, Weston. Employs 14 men. This works manufactures about 70% of New Zealand's requirements of hydrated lime. Present output approx. 9000 tons. Used in freezing works in fellmongery departments, in manufacture of gelatine, in purification of raw sugar, in purification of city water supplies, in building industry for mortars and plaster work, in rubber works, in sprays for orchards.
Campaign Ale Campaign Ale
North Otago Brewery (estab. Circa 1876, closed Circa 1915)
Circa 1906
Dark green glass bottle. Labelled "Campaign ale. Non-intoxicating". "Brewed and bottled by R. Shand and Co., Ribble Street, Oamaru".
Bottle of Stout Bottle of Stout
North Otago Brewery (estab. Circa 1876, closed Circa 1915)
Pre 1905
Green glass bottle with contents intact. Label reads "Extra double brown stout". "North Otago Brewery. Prime North Otago. Brewed and bottled by R. Shand and Co. Oamaru. Stout Prime invigorating and nourishing. Stout."
Steinecker beer bottle Steinecker beer bottle
1962
First bottle of beer sold in Oamaru under Trust Control on Saturday March 24th 1962. This ended decades of prohibition in Oamaru.
Purchased by Bill Burns, then Curator of the Pioneer Gallery, at the Wear Street Bottle Store. "STEINECKER STEINECKER LAGER BEER. CONTENTS 12 FL OZ NETT." Small brown bottle with contents intact.
A photo of this purchase is in the Oamaru Mail on 26 March 1962 p. 4
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