WW Corpe's Butter & Cheese Factory and employees, Makino
More Info →- Description
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William Westcombe Corpe (1836 - 1923) was one of the pioneers of the dairy industry in the Manawatu. He arrived in the Feilding district about 1881 and was a sawmiller for some years before constructing a butter and cheese factory at Makino, near Feilding. Mr. Corpe was making butter by 1887 and continued in the industry until 1903, when he sold to Joseph Nathan and Co Ltd. of Wellington. W W Corpe(3rd from left); Mr Streeter (4th from left); A W Corpe, grandson of WW Corpe (far right).
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- Public Photograph Collection D 12
- Date
- 1890 to 1900
- Digitisation id
- 2008N_D12_WOR_1413
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Macedo, Feilding
- Place
- Manawatu
Object rights
- License
- No Known Restrictions
Taxonomy
- Community Tags
- beards
- braces
- children
- girls
- hats
- makino butter factory
- men
- uniforms
- w.w. corpe