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Ōamaru Centennial Memorial Restrooms

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Ōamaru Centennial Memorial Restrooms

The government provided a subsidy for centennial memorials, and it encouraged those that had a useful purpose. There were over 250 memorials in total, and Plunket rooms and rest rooms such as these at Ōamaru were common.

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Jock Phillips, Anniversaries – New Zealand’s centennial, 1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/43022/oamaru-centennial-memorial-restrooms (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 14 October 2013.