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Kōrero: 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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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PA1-f-239-40

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

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 April 2015.