National Pineapple Chunk Day proposed
Family history . . . Checking out a display on Charles Diver, the Oamaru man who invented Pineapple Chunks, are his daughter Nancy Bell and great-grandson Charles Diver. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Family of the Oamaru man who invented Pineapple Chunks are calling for a national day in his honour. Charles Richard Diver’s granddaughter Linda Wilson has applied to international organisations Days of the Year and National Day for November 22, Mr Diver’s birthday, to be “National Pineapple Chunks Day”. “The reasoning behind it is to get recognition for New Zealand and Charles Diver for the creation...