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Milk tanker

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Milk tanker

Tankers from Westland Milk Products regularly collect milk from farm holding tanks all over the West Coast, and transport it to the processing factory in Hokitika. There it is converted into milk powder and a range of specialist milk products.

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by Simon Nathan

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Simon Nathan, West Coast region – Soils and agriculture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21142/milk-tanker (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.