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Fonterra milk tanker

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Fonterra milk tanker

In the 2000s most Waikato dairy factories were owned by the Fonterra Co-operative Group. This milk tanker is leaving a Fonterra factory at Te Rapa, Hamilton, to collect milk from Waikato dairy farms.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – Farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27118/fonterra-milk-tanker (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.