The Last Post Pub & Restaurant

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The Last Post pub & restaurant offers a gaming room, big-screen TV, an extensive menu covering snacks, lunch and dinner and a wide range of beverages to be enjoyed in either the main dining area, gaming room or our covered garden courtyard.

The Last Post was Ōamaru's first Post Office, opened in 1864. There were several Lime Stone quarries in Ōamaru during its formative years and The Last Post building was built using Casa Nova quarry stone, as was the historic bridge adjacent to the building.

The old Post Office is the oldest public building in Ōamaru and the only surviving public building by the prominent architect W.H. Clayton. The clock was never installed in the tower and further extensions were built to the south in 1875. By 1879 the building was considered inadequate for the purpose and a new Post Office was opened next door in 1884. The building was then used by government departments, including social welfare, until it was refurbished and opened as The Last Post Pub & Restaurant in 1992.

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