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Story: Dairying and dairy products

The milk run

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The milk run

Delivering milk to skimming stations and returning with skimmed milk was not always easy on long, unpaved country roads. These Northland farmers are making the daily milk run about 1910.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

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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/photograph/15689/the-milk-run (accessed 4 June 2026).

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