In 1895 iced trucks for conveying butter were provided by the Department of Agriculture on the Taranaki-Welling-ton railway line.
“In 1919,” states Mr. W. M. Singleton, director of the Dairy Division, “the Division issued a plan of a model cowshed as a working basis for dairy farmers. The need for improvement in this direction had been long apparent and not only did the Division’s plan fill a long felt want but it did a great deal, through turning attention toward this subject, toward educating dairy farmers in this branch of their activities.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)
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