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New Zealand branded 'Fernleaf' butter from Rongotea, outside the cooling chambers at the Rongotea butter factory. A hand written caption on the original print reads: “Rongotea Superfine Butter – outside the cool chambers. Butte packed in clean new boxes ready for distribution and boxes ready for packing lined with best quality pure vegetable parchment paper”. Rongotea Co-op Diary Co Ltd was established in 1895.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2010N_D36_3354
Title
Butter boxes at Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
Relation
Public Photograph Collection D 36
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
circa 1944

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

Tags
agriculture,
cream,
dairy,
farm,
industry,
milk,
photographs,
rural towns and life,
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