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Kōrero: Dairying and dairy products

Milk truck

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Milk truck

As transport and roads improved, it was possible for a milk collection system to develop, instead of each farmer having to deliver milk to a creamery or butter factory. This truckload of milk cans is being unloaded at a factory in 1918, probably in Taranaki.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, James McAllister Collection (PAColl-3054)

Reference: 1/1-009637; G

by James McAllister

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Separators and milking machines, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15695/milk-truck (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.