Story: Waikato region

Blocks of cheese

Lawrence Kerr bags a 20-kilogram block of cheese at the Open Country dairy factory in 2008. Open Country, based at Waharoa, is another independent dairy company.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – Farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27117/blocks-of-cheese (accessed 23 June 2026).

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