A Spotlight on C. A. Clarke & Son Ltd
Advertising in Wise’s N.Z. Post Office Directory 1954
You can view this advertisement
at www.ancestry.com via the Rotorua District Library
Bottling began in 1883 in a shed at Utuhina, and
by 1967 the firm had some 30 employees. The factory was on Tutanekai
Street , where the Novotel Hotel is now (2012). The plant was probably the only
cordial factory in the world to operate on geothermal steam. Their bottles all
had the letters 'CAC' on them in glass raised letters.
A new factory opened at Ngapuna on Friday 1st
December, 1967. It incorporated a heat exchange system that generated the steam
and hot water required to sterilise bottles.
When the factory moved to Ngapuna it was where
the Timber Yards are now (2012). The site on Tutanekai Street was bought by Reg
Durrant who operated a supermarket there, called DURRANTS, and later it
changed hands becoming a Woolworths Supermarket.
Four generations of the Clarke family were involved in the manufacture
of aerated waters and cordials.
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