Milk powder factory, Longburn
More Info →- Description
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The Manawatu Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd was established in 1960. To cope with the enlarged intake of milk and cream a continuous butter making system was planned and a new butter factory was opened in 1968. At the time, it was the third largest dairy co-operative in New Zealand, having an ultimate capacity of 20,000 tons of butter a year, a whole milk capacity of 3000, 000 gallons of milk daily and production value of $11,000,000 annually.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- Public Photograph Collection D 56
- Date
- circa 1969
- Digitisation id
- 2010N_D56_3339
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Manawatu