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Windmill, Ōtūrehua

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Windmill, Ōtūrehua
This windmill is used to advertise the Hayes engineering works museum at Ōtūrehua. It is also a reminder of the successful products developed by local Ernest Hayes. Hayes sold his inventions throughout Otago and the South Island from the back of his Buick car.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Manuherikia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22822/windmill-oturehua (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.