Sums expended in making Harbors where nature has not already provided them would be a needless expenditure.
Captain William Thomson, 1868
Oamaru Harbour - Kiwitown's port
Early days - Oamaru Harbour
Oamaru, fair Oamaru; the port of Oamaru
We tell you here there's nought
to fear
For the port of Oamaru.'B.N.K.E.', North Otago Times, 1884
Colonial beachhead - Oamaru Harbour
Songs loud and long for our harbour board will
sweep across the sky.
What bold men dare, no jealousy can stop
what they will do,
They ventured and they quickly made a
port of Oamaru'B.N.K.E.', North Otago Times, 1884
Deep-water port - Oamaru Harbour
Oamaru is a fair maiden that sits beside the sea. When I thought of the harbour you have created here, I said this fair maiden holds the horn of plenty in her hand.
Sir George Grey, 1878
Oamaru Harbour after 1974
The malign spirit of the Kiwi borough engineer lingered here until recently.
Gavin McLean, Heartlands, 2006
Nurse Isobel Clark memorial
Memorial oak to Nurse Isobel Clark in Oamaru. Nurse Clark lost her life when the transport ship Marquette was sunk by a German submarine in October 1915. She was one of 32 New Zealanders, including ten nurses, who died when the ship went down.
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St Pauls Church war memorial
Credit:
Images and information: Bruce Comfort, 2011
Find out more about the people listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database
Concreted container in Oamaru Harbour
At Oamaru old containers were pumped full of concrete and placed on the seaward side of the breakwater to protect it from erosion.
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Gavin McLean
Oamaru Hospital nurses war memorial
Oamaru Hospital nurses war memorial.
Bruce Comfort, 2010
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