This shows Corpes original creamery at Waituna West. The creamery was located directly opposite Smith's Blacksmithery and adjacent to the carpenters shop.

Date:          1900

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 July 1961 "The Palmerston North Milk Treatment Station is contributing its third technical officer for advisory work on milk supply for under-developed countries. The...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 26, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 May, 1963. "Delivery was taken this morning of a new 1800 gallon milk tanker for the Palmerston North milk processing station. This is the first of a future fleet of s...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          May 2, 1963

The Rongotea Dairy factory was established in 1895. The battery driven electric trucks were operated by the Rongotea Co-op Diary Co Ltd 1918-1925, when it began the collection of home separated cream for butter making, instead of receiving whole m...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1918 to circa 1925

Massey Agricultural College was opened in 1928. This postcard shows milk bottles being loaded into crates for delivery.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1945

This panorama of Rongotea shows Douglas Square in the 1920s. The prominent building in the centre of the photograph is the Dairy Factory. This is the second Dairy factory after the first, built in 1893, was replaced in 1911 due to increasing demand.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          June 5, 1923

The Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd was founded 1895. The brick building is the new dairy factory, built in 1911, the third in Rongotea. On the right is the offices of the Rongotea co-op Co.rongotea Post Office. The photograph was published 20...

Creator:      New Zealand Dairyman
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1911

The Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd was founded 1895. R M Matheson, Manager (centre) and workmen at the factory line up outside the dairy factory. The photograph was published 20 September 1911.

Creator:      New Zealand Dairyman
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1911

Mr. Samuel Watkin Luxford (1856 – 1925) established a pedigree herd of Ayrshire cattle on his farm at Awapuni. Mr. Luxford was a well know cattle breeder in Manawatu and was a President of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He sold the A...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1903

Cows being shown at, possibly, a local show.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

This wooden factory was replaced by a brick building in 1911, so the excavations in the foreground may be the foundations of the new factory. The Rongotea Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd was established in 1895 and was amalgamated in 1960 with the Awahuri Co-...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

These Jersey cows are on S R Lancaster's Te Matai farm, Whakarongo.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

This photograph shows freshly made butter coming from one of the churns at the Rongotea butter factory. The Rongotea Co-op Dairy Co. was established in 1895 and was amalgamated in 1960 with the Awahuri Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd, to form the Mana...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1944

Shown here is the Mauriceville West Dairy Factory, with several groups of farmers waiting to unload their deliveries.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1901

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          1954

This mixed herd of cows are on H. Moffatt's farm at Kairanga.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1910

This photograph shows the Fitzherbert East Creamery, later extended to form the dairy factory. See Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p. 30.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

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 ne...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1944

The factory was established in 1905 by J J Gillies. It was sold to the Bunnythorpe Co-op Dairy Co Ltd. in 1907.

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1906

A Jersey herd on the property of S. R. Lancaster, Te Matai, Whakarongo. The Cresswell homestead is shown centre and the Whakarongo Road is out of the picture on the left. Mr. Lancaster is standing on the right.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1923

This brick butter factory replaced the old wooden factory which was constructed during the 1890s. The Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd was established in 1895 and was amalgamated in 1960 with the Awahuri Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd, to form the ...

Creator:      C P Wood, Rongotea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1911

 Room 9, (Standards 4 and 5) spent a day at the museum at Palmerston North, learning about life in early Manawatu. One of the activities they participated in was carrying milk pails.

Creator:      Lesley Courtney

Date:          1985