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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

The Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd

The Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. Directors:—Messrs. W. Mitchell (chairman), John Bruce, W. G. Pearce, G. R. Jones, R. Burne, W. P. Buchanan, and W. Jones. This Company, which has been three years in existence, has a freehold three-acre section on which the dairy is erected, and has a large contract in the Old Country, which absorbs the greater part of the butter produced. The price obtained during the season 1895–6 was 9d. per lb., f.o.b., Wellington. The premises consist of a wooden building, roofed with iron, having a concrete floorage space of over 1300 square feet. Burmister and Wain's machinery was used for some time, but is now replaced by De Laval's, with Hall's freezing apparatus. The whole is worked on a gravitation principle. The apartments include cream and butter rooms, and cooling chamber. The cream is ripened in large vats capable of holding 200 gallons, the output in the season being half-a-ton daily. Cleanliness prevails throughout, and a small creek runs through the rear of the section. Excellent water is also obtained from a depth of sixty-two feet by means of a pump.