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The History of Ice Cream in New Zealand
By Chris Newey
Contents
 1800
- 1910
- The First Ice Cream?
- The Ice Age
- The Ice
Cream Hawker
- The Problem With Sunday
- Early Manufacturing
- The Ice Cream Parlour
1911
- 1930
- The Beginnings of the Ice Cream Industry
- The Marble Bar
- Home-made Ice Cream
- Ice Cream Quality and Standards
- Ice Cream Novelties
- The Eskimo Pie
- Home Refrigeration Arrives and the Ice Cream Industry
Booms
- Ice Cream Manufacturers Join Forces
1931
- 1950
- The Frigidaire Effect
- Timeline:
the 30s
- Ice Cream, The Health Food
- The Modern
Milk Bar
- Tip Top Ice Cream Co.
- Ice Cream Goes to War
1951
- 1970
- Technology & Scale
- Food or Dairy Product?
- Hokey
Pokey Ice Cream
- "Take-home" vs. "Bulk"
- New Food Regulations
- Tip Top Corner
- Treats on Sticks
1971
- 1990
- The Dairy Industry Awakes
- Wall's
- The Rebirth of New American
- Timeline: the '70s and '80s
1991
- 2010
- Taking on the World
- New Zealand Natural
- The Ice Cream Awards
- Lick or Spoon?
- The Ice Cream Code Of Practice
- Gelato & Sorbet
- The
Dairy Industry Returns
2010
- now
- Ice Cream Awards Expanded
- Probiotic Ice Cream
- Tip Top Turns 75
- Ice Cream with a Social Conscience
- Timeline: 2010s
- Legends of the Industry
Ice
Cream Brands from the Past
- A list of more than 100 ice cream brands that have disappeared
over the years.
Apex
- A Christchurch brand that was active from the 30s to the
60s.
Eldora
- Fondly remembered by those who grew up in Devonport
in the 40s and 50s.
Frosty
Jack
- Wellington's dominant brand in the 30s, 40s,
and 50s
Ice
Cream Charlie
- A Christchurch institution since 1903.
McDonald's
- The Waikato's first ice cream manufacturer, established 1922.
Perfection
- Christchurch's biggest brand from the 30s
through to the early 60s.
Phantazzi,
Newjoy & Manda
- Phantazzi, Newjoy, Manda & Deep South ice cream
brands
- all part of the Simon family legacy.
Queen
Anne
- The iconic national brand built by a legendary
baker.
Rush
Munro
- A Hawke's bay legend that started out in Auckland.
Snowflake
- For over 80 years, the favourite treat of West
Coasters.
Sunshine
- One of Nelson's favourites from the 40s and early
50s.
Supreme
- Out of Timaru, an ice cream company that also pioneered frozen food technology.
Tip
Top
- Our biggest, and now our oldest ice cream business - an iconic brand.
Trans-Tasman
brands
- The incredibly complex story of how ownership of some famous
trans-Tasman ice cream brands evolved.
Top photo: Ice cream parlor, Stafford Street,
Timaru, 1915.
- Ref:
1/2-107025-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington,
New Zealand.
1911 - 1930
About the History of Ice Cream in New Zealand:
Sources, references and related sites:
Archives New Zealand:
http://archives.govt.nz/
Auckland Libraries
Christchurch City Libraries
Devonport
Historical Society and Museum collection.
www.devonportmuseum.org.nz
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography:
www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5m29/1
Dominion Post.
Ferrymead Heritage Park
www.ferrymead.org.nz
From ice to refrigerators, by Nigel Isaacs. BUILD magazine.
Kete West Coast
Longwhitekid - history of Peter Pan, Tip Top, Meadow Gold, Wall's, Hokey Pokey,
and much more:
http://longwhitekid.wordpress.com
Lost Christchurch:
http://lostchristchurch.org.nz/icecream-charlie-icecream-vendor-cathedral-square-c-1930
Massey family - personal communications.
Mudcakes & Roses, April 2008 issue, Tasman District Council
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
National Library
Nga Taonga Sound & Vision.
NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Assn. archives - ' The Frostee Digest',
journal of the NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association, 1941-1972.
New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association (NZICA) Oral History Project;
held at NZICA archives and Alexander Turnbull Library.
- Shona McCahon, Oral historian.
New Zealand Natural Premium Ice Cream
www.newzealandnatural.com
Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand digitised newspapers database):
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
Queen Anne:
www.queenanne.co.nz
Rush Munro's:
www.rushmunro.co.nz
Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
The Early Tip Top Story, Tip Top archives
The Gourmet Ice Cream Company
http://gourmetnewzealand.co.nz/
The Nelson Provincial Museum
Tip Top Ice Cream Co. archives:
www.tiptop.co.nz
Till the Cows Came Home, Clive Lind, Steele Roberts.
'Town Milk - A history of Auckland's town milk supply' by Alec Brown (Auckland,
N.Z. : New Zealand Milk Corporation)
Special thanks also to the many individuals who have contributed information
and advice from their own ice cream industry experience, knowledge and expertise:
Sandi Bulmer
Rod Dennis
Max Dunn
The Massey family
Susanna Mayer
Peter McCracken
Owen Norton
Tanya Reid
Brian & Jeanette Simon
Murray Taylor
Darian Zam
About the Author:
Chris Newey, FNZIFST
Web designer and NZICA website custodian. A food technologist who has been in
and around
the
ice cream industry, and involved with
the NZICA, for over thirty years, initially in product development,
then supplying ingredients and providing
technical
service, and later, building and maintaining websites for ice cream manufacturers
and ice cream consultants.
About the material:
Special thanks to Jenny and Karen at the NZICA executive office, Shona McCahon,
Darian
Zam,
Steve
Williams, Rod Dennis and
the
many
individuals
and organisations who
have
generously
provided
information
and
material, and permission to reproduce photos, signage, packaging and graphics.
Sources
for individual items are identified wherever possible. Please let us know if
any
are incorrectly credited or captioned.
Wherever possible, permission has been obtained for the reproduction of photographs
and images in this publication, but in all cases, ownership remains with the
individuals
and
organisations
credited in
the
associated captions. Images are not the property of the NZICA. For permission
to
reproduce
any image, please contact the credited owner.
All written content however is copyright © of The New Zealand Ice Cream
Manufacturers
Association
(Inc.,),
PO Box 9364, Wellington,
NEW ZEALAND.
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