Here for auction is a nice unused freight destination-station label of New Zealand Railways, for WAITOA.

Clean & unused. The paper is slightly age toned. Size: 55 x 82 mm.

This dates back some years, when all stations had fulltime staff, & accepted crates & parcels to be railed to any other station within NZ. Any carton accepted for freight would have one of these labels glued to it, showing the name of the station it was consigned to. On arrival at that station, the clerk would send a postcard to the addressee, advising them that the box is ready to be collected at the NZR station.

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Waitoa is a settlement in New Zealand. The population in the 2006 census was 318, a decrease of 42 people since 2001.

A Fonterra dairy factory is a prominent blue building in the middle of the town. Waitoa has a primary school with around 30-50 children. The Waitoa river runs through the village and is prone to flooding.

A railway line runs to the dairy factory, and used to go to Te Aroha and on to Thames, however that section was closed and the line only runs to service the dairy factory.

Two freezing works and a rendering plant also operate in the Waitoa area. Workers commute from nearby towns of Te Aroha, Morrinsville and Matamata.

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