Museums at Gore, New Zealand

Back to September 11th, 2007, Ho Keung and Yin Ping reached Gore. They visited several museums.

Inside one, they saw a Cheese Press. Image you bought a cake of cheese made in New Zealand in the past. It might have been made here by this machine. The wheel near the bottom of the machine had handles which when turned would screw down and exert pressure on a piece of cheese. Thus the excessive water content could be squeezed out of the cheese.

The work-shop of a blacksmith was revealed to New Zealanders and tourists that in the past tools made of iron came from these small-scaled furnace which heated the iron pieces. The leather-made air–bags when pressed continuously could blow in air into the furnace to make the coal burn fiercely. The anvil on the right will be for the blacksmith to hammer the red-hot iron piece into the desired shape.

In another room, some phased out household appliances were displayed. In the past they were great inventions. On the very left was a washing machine for clothes. The clothes were placed inside the round metal drum which was turned round and round, driven by the motor below. There was a hand-driven dryer at the top for drying clothes.

Next to the classic washing machine was a mop for cleaning floors. In the centre was a machine for washing banners. On the floor to the right were two heaters. Above them were a vacuum cleaner, a dust whip and something that I cannot recognize.

At Gore, besides the museums, there were places such as Arts & Heritage Precinct and New Zealand’s Capital of Country Music.