Taranaki dairy factory.

[Fresh Fields]

Evening all.

I have been sent this image from Australia, by someone who knows I do agricultural heritage research. I am told it is of a photo in a family photo collection, but it is only identified as Taranaki.

It is very possibly a dairy factory, but because of the difficulties of transporting wholemilk, and or separated cream, on rough roads in that era, there were many factories quite close to each other. Horses were still being used in the 1940's to transport locally from many farms.

And unfortunately my knowledge is more Waikato based, than other parts of our country. Also at this time I am still committed to the pack down of our Agricultural Fieldays, so no time to go digging myself.

Do any readers of this post have any suggestions?

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

Interesting background reading re the area known as Taranaki.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/15693/taranaki-dairy-factories

Alan.

[Lucy2]

.....  I have been sent this image from Australia, by someone who knows I do agricultural heritage research. I am told it is of a photo in a family photo collection, but it is only identified as Taranaki.

Hi Alan

Do you know the name(s) of the people who are connected with this family photo collection ??

Identifying members of the family, say via electoral rolls, might provide a starting point as to where in Taranaki this building was located.

    ~  Lu

[mckha489]

Puke Ariki photographic collection  seems the most llikely place to find it.
Awatuna has the same square top to the facade - but it doesn't look quite right.

Can anyone enhance the name on the facade.

No doubt part of it says Dairy Co-op and a date.


https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects?query=subjects%3A%22Dairy+factories%22

or if it isnt Taranaki, might be something at Digital NZ https://digitalnz.org/records?text=dairy+factory

[mckha489]

Running a potential list here.
Building to the left on FF's photo is probably a house??

Awatuna - don't think so
Cape Egmont - perhaps.   https://digitalnz.org/records/39651438/cape-egmont-co-operative-dairy-company-limited-factory-complex-1947

[Fresh Fields]

Thanks ladies.

The querry came to me through several hands, so I asked a former Taranaki farmer volunteer at Fieldays, and he had no suggestions. Might not be Taranaki. I am flat out on breakdown logistics so no time to research myself, but hopefully in a week or so, I might be able to make direct contact with the holder of the photograph, as Lu has suggested.

Alan.

[minniehaha]

Photographs here of some (?) Taranaki dairy factories. Just click on the oblong boxes...


https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/25330/taranaki-dairy-factories


Minniehaha.

[Fresh Fields]

Thanks. Have already done that. But closest is a mirror image, so that adds another  question, is one a negative print and the other a positive.

Alan.

[shanreagh]

I think? I can see Coop on the second row of what might be the name.

I think I can see the letter H towards the start of the word on the top row.

Perhaps ask for someone on the Photography etc board to see if they can clean-up the image, particulalrly the part that usually had the name written on it.

The car parked parallel to the loading dock looks a bit like, to my untrained vehicle eye, a car we called 'Dad's big old Chev'. He had this well before we were born and he had a background as being secretary at our local dairy factory