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Ernest Adams cakes

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Ernest Adams cakes

This full-page newspaper advertisement announces the opening of the new enlarged Christchurch bakery of Ernest Adams in 1935. The small print announces that the bakery manages its own poultry farm, producing 25,000 eggs each week.

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Baking and confectionery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/22975/ernest-adams-cakes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.