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.

Butter boxes at Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Digitisation ID
- 2010N_D36_3354
- Title
- Butter boxes at Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
- Held In
- Coolstore
Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Palmerston North
- Date
- circa 1944
Object rights
- Credit Line
- Palmerston North City Library
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags
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