#can labels

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The donor of this label wrote away to the Wattie's factory in 1959 to request unused labels for a school project that her daughters had been assigned. Subsequently, many of those labels were donated to the Library. It is helpful to know this provenance because we can offer a fairly definite date of when the label was in use, making the material much more useful to future researchers.

J Wattie Canneries Ltd :Watties mixed vegetables, cooked and ready to serve, delicious hot or served cold with salads, packed by J Wattie Canneries Limited, Hastings and Gisborne New Zealand. A New Zealand product. Net weight 1 lb 6 oz. [Printed by] CSW. [Label. ca 1959]

Eph-B-FOOD-Watties-1959-03

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A cheery label for a canned plum pudding, traditionally eaten by New Zealanders at Christmas-time despite its being summertime here. Note the logo at the right, showing St George fighting the dragon, in best English tradition. All the appropriate wintry Christmas imagery appears on this label, published by a Dunedin company that also produced jams, soups, tinned meat and fish, and household products such as laundry crystals.

St George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd :Ye olde English plum pudding, prepared by Irvine & Stevenson's St George Coy Ltd., New Zealand [Can label. 1950s?].    

Eph-B-FOOD-1950s-01