Approximately 19 Walker Electric trucks were in use collecting home separated cream for butter making from 1918-1925. The electric trucks outlived their usefulness because of the limited distance that could be covered without re-charging (40 mile/...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1918 to circa 1925

The original prints read “Stanway Creamery”. The building was evidently a skimming station attached to a butter factory in the Feilding district, possibly at Makino or Cheltenham. Bert Monk is standing in the doorway next to the cream can.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Halcombe, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1910