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Story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region

An early dairy factory

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An early dairy factory

One of Manawatū’s early dairy factories was at Hiwinui, between Ashhurst and Bunnythorpe. It was photographed in the 1890s.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua region – Unsettled times: 1880–1910, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9487/an-early-dairy-factory (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 April 2015.