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Kōrero: Factory industries

Interior of a dairy factory, early 1900s

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Interior of a dairy factory, early 1900s

Inside this dairy factory workers are shown processing milk into butter and cheese for local use and export. The skim milk residue, which would become a valuable raw material later in the 20th century, was taken away by the farmers. Factories such as this were set up by cooperatives across the country’s dairying regions.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 10x8-1145-G

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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Ian Hunter, Factory industries – Factories, 1880 to 1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25714/interior-of-a-dairy-factory-early-1900s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian Hunter, i tāngia i te 1 March 2010.