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Story: Dairying and dairy products

Dunedin, 1882

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Dunedin, 1882

Although the Dunedin is mainly remembered for carrying the first frozen meat to Britain in 1882, it also carried the first small shipment of butter.

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Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Expansion of dairying, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/15687/dunedin-1882 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, published 1 March 2009.