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










