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Old News paper advert from a Goldminer`s abandoned hut up the Snowy river few years back
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Date Created17th July 2024CommentsGordon McIntosh
Measurements for some of the products are metric... grams and kilos. New Zealand changed to metric in December 1976.
Sean Doyle
Gordon finger and thumb may have got in the way. 7 & 6 are the wrong way around.
Gordon McIntosh
Sean Doyle decimal currency was 10 July 1967... metric measurement later 14 December 1976.
Greg Davis
Gordon McIntosh yeah , and I was 13 and really struggling at school and they did that to me . Fucked me up totally
Darian Zam
Gordon McIntosh Not precisely. It was between 1974 and 1976. The changeover was encouraged by the NZ government from 1972 but producers were so reticent and slow hardly any was done. So they ramped up a campaign from 1974 to close off the changeover by 1976. I have only seen one or two items around 1972 but recently I remember I came across something much earlier to my surprise like 1969 about when the government first started suggesting it be done. In the middle of the campaign the government decided to also introduce the hare-brained MRP (median recommended pricing) scheme I suppose thinking if everyone was gonna redo packaging...they may as well change 2 things. MRP flatlined by the end of 1975 but some products still had the shield symbol on the packaging for years cos they couldn't be bothered changing it again.
Jakh Heremia
50 years ago - I remember Errol's Dad's mini market.
Robin Gibbens
Gordon McIntosh July 10 1967 l was in last year at primary school
Susan Barlow
May have been from an abandoned goldminer's hut but certainly not from OLD goldminer's times.
Martin Kahui
Susan Barlow Who said it was tho?
Susan Barlow
Martin Kahui Nobody! Just making an observation.
Martin Kahui
Susan Barlow Old newspaper article from a goldminers abandoned hut ..
Susan Barlow
Martin Kahui I think that the newspaper clip is interesting enough on its own without the added (WOW) factor of it being found in a "goldminer's abandoned hut" When I first saw this heading I was momentarily intrigued as to what it could possibly be ... images of old stories, past deeds, unknown disputes over claims, came to mind . When I saw what it was my reaction was, 'huh? Is that all?" Which as I said at the beginning of this comment, is a pity because the clip actually is, quite intresting.
Marlene Boyd
No the prices would have been in pounds, shillings and pennies if it was an old miner's hut. Not in decimal currency.
Martin Kahui
Marlene Boyd It says, old article from abandoned hut. It doesn't say, clipping from old goldminers hut is what I meant
9h9 hours ago
Murray Saunders
Oooooohhhhhh honey puffs. Sadly Another thread ruined by petty bickering. Just enjoy the find people…
Trish Rennie
Prices from late 60’s - early 70’s
Alan Messenger
The prices are in decimal currency? Decimal currency didn't come in until about 1966..
1habout an hour ago
Alan Messenger 10 July 1967
1habout an hour ago
Alan Messenger Also weights are metric which makes it even later
Debbie Thistoll
Products from 60s & 70s, I remember having them as a kid
Ray Chandler
Maybe it's from USA. Or Canada
Kim Fentiman
Ray Chandler Greymouth
Colinette Searle
Decimal Currency day was 10 July 1967
Vanessa Neal
My brain is just cycling through all the old jingles from the brands on there
Darian Zam
I would date this between 1976-1979. Full metric changeover is complete the bulk of which was undertaken 1974-1976. By the early 1980s 'Apple' shampoo changed to 'Green Apple' and White Magic didn't outlast the decade. SPC was on the market from the 1920s but it was available in 440g cans in the late 1970s.
Susan Lightbown
Watties frozen peas??? Flavour ice blocks??? Did they have freezers in huts back then??
Christine Banks
From Errol Boucher's Mini Mart, Mackay Street, Greymourh?
Philip Nicol
Look at the saving's, you won't get that today. 91 cents on shampoo.
Barry Appleton
Even then bloody coffee still expensive
Wayne Rogers
A old mate of mine From, South land, told me he saw a guy pick up a pay book, at mine on the mountain,north Westport, interesting where that book would be now
Greg Mait
Bloody Apple shampoo!! used to stink the pub out on a Friday night
Leanda Moka
Greg Mait that shampoo was the go for me with a family of 4 loved it and the price was ok
Darian Zam
For people who still fail to read before commenting and/or arguing: It's not American, and it's not old (in context of a gold miner's hut old).
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I would date this between 1976-1979. Full metric changeover is complete the bulk of which was undertaken 1974-1976. By the early 1980s 'Apple' shampoo changed to 'Green Apple' and White Magic didn't outlast the decade. SPC was on the market from the 1920s but it was available in 440g cans in the late 1970s.
Measurements for some of the products are metric... grams and kilos. New Zealand changed to metric in December 1976.
Sean Doyle
Gordon finger and thumb may have got in the way. 7 & 6 are the wrong way around.
Gordon McIntosh
Sean Doyle decimal currency was 10 July 1967... metric measurement later 14 December 1976.
Greg Davis
Gordon McIntosh yeah , and I was 13 and really struggling at school and they did that to me . Fucked me up totally
Darian Zam
Gordon McIntosh Not precisely. It was between 1974 and 1976. The changeover was encouraged by the NZ government from 1972 but producers were so reticent and slow hardly any was done. So they ramped up a campaign from 1974 to close off the changeover by 1976. I have only seen one or two items around 1972 but recently I remember I came across something much earlier to my surprise like 1969 about when the government first started suggesting it be done. In the middle of the campaign the government decided to also introduce the hare-brained MRP (median recommended pricing) scheme I suppose thinking if everyone was gonna redo packaging...they may as well change 2 things. MRP flatlined by the end of 1975 but some products still had the shield symbol on the packaging for years cos they couldn't be bothered changing it again.
Jakh Heremia
50 years ago - I remember Errol's Dad's mini market.
Robin Gibbens
Gordon McIntosh July 10 1967 l was in last year at primary school
Susan Barlow
May have been from an abandoned goldminer's hut but certainly not from OLD goldminer's times.
Martin Kahui
Susan Barlow Who said it was tho?
Susan Barlow
Martin Kahui Nobody! Just making an observation.
Martin Kahui
Susan Barlow Old newspaper article from a goldminers abandoned hut ..
Susan Barlow
Martin Kahui I think that the newspaper clip is interesting enough on its own without the added (WOW) factor of it being found in a "goldminer's abandoned hut" When I first saw this heading I was momentarily intrigued as to what it could possibly be ... images of old stories, past deeds, unknown disputes over claims, came to mind . When I saw what it was my reaction was, 'huh? Is that all?" Which as I said at the beginning of this comment, is a pity because the clip actually is, quite intresting.
Marlene Boyd
No the prices would have been in pounds, shillings and pennies if it was an old miner's hut. Not in decimal currency.
Martin Kahui
Marlene Boyd It says, old article from abandoned hut. It doesn't say, clipping from old goldminers hut is what I meant
9h9 hours ago
Murray Saunders
Oooooohhhhhh honey puffs. Sadly Another thread ruined by petty bickering. Just enjoy the find people…
Trish Rennie
Prices from late 60’s - early 70’s
Alan Messenger
The prices are in decimal currency? Decimal currency didn't come in until about 1966..
1habout an hour ago
Alan Messenger 10 July 1967
1habout an hour ago
Alan Messenger Also weights are metric which makes it even later
Debbie Thistoll
Products from 60s & 70s, I remember having them as a kid
Ray Chandler
Maybe it's from USA. Or Canada
Kim Fentiman
Ray Chandler Greymouth
Colinette Searle
Decimal Currency day was 10 July 1967
Vanessa Neal
My brain is just cycling through all the old jingles from the brands on there
Darian Zam
I would date this between 1976-1979. Full metric changeover is complete the bulk of which was undertaken 1974-1976. By the early 1980s 'Apple' shampoo changed to 'Green Apple' and White Magic didn't outlast the decade. SPC was on the market from the 1920s but it was available in 440g cans in the late 1970s.
Susan Lightbown
Watties frozen peas??? Flavour ice blocks??? Did they have freezers in huts back then??
Christine Banks
From Errol Boucher's Mini Mart, Mackay Street, Greymourh?
Philip Nicol
Look at the saving's, you won't get that today. 91 cents on shampoo.
Barry Appleton
Even then bloody coffee still expensive
Wayne Rogers
A old mate of mine From, South land, told me he saw a guy pick up a pay book, at mine on the mountain,north Westport, interesting where that book would be now
Greg Mait
Bloody Apple shampoo!! used to stink the pub out on a Friday night
Leanda Moka
Greg Mait that shampoo was the go for me with a family of 4 loved it and the price was ok
Darian Zam
For people who still fail to read before commenting and/or arguing: It's not American, and it's not old (in context of a gold miner's hut old).
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I would date this between 1976-1979. Full metric changeover is complete the bulk of which was undertaken 1974-1976. By the early 1980s 'Apple' shampoo changed to 'Green Apple' and White Magic didn't outlast the decade. SPC was on the market from the 1920s but it was available in 440g cans in the late 1970s.
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West Coast New Zealand History (20th Jul 2024). Old News paper advert from a Goldminer`s abandoned hut up the Snowy river few years back. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 25th Mar 2026 11:01, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/33692