Birthday celebration for gasworks

Dunedin Gasworks Museum Trust’s chairman Jonathan Cweorth holds a cake made for the gasworks’ 160th anniversary yesterday with Dunedin city councillor Sophie Barker (left) and trust member and the founder of the Southern Heritage Trust, Ann Barsby.

The Dunedin Gasworks is one of the only known preserved gasworks in the world. It was the first and last gasworks in New Zealand and its machines are still in good-working order.

Mr Cweorth said it was a "lovely afternoon".

"It’s an amazing milestone. It’s hard to believe it’s lasted this long and it’s still going strong."

The trust had plans to expand the museum and hoped to develop a regular market day at the gasworks soon.