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New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company dried milk plant, Waitoa, 1924

In 1919 the New Zealand Dairy Association and the Waikato Co-operative Dairy Company merged to form the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, the largest such cooperative in the country. This is the company's dried milk plant at Waitoa, near Morrinsville, in 1924.

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Jane Tolerton, Agricultural processing industries – Dairy factories in the 20th and 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/25159/new-zealand-co-operative-dairy-company-dried-milk-plant-waitoa-1924 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 11 November 2014.