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Story: Stone fruit and the summerfruit industry

Wattie’s peaches label

Wattie’s peaches label

This label is from a tin of Wattie’s peaches, about 1950. Peaches are probably the best-known Wattie’s product on the New Zealand market.

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Marie Dawkins, Stone fruit and the summerfruit industry – Commercial production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/18791/watties-peaches-label (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Marie Dawkins, published 1 March 2009.