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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Mauriceville Dairy Factory
Mauriceville Dairy Factory, Mauriceville West, was established in 1891, and is open in the summer and autumn months. It is the property of the Mauriceville Dairy Company, and is let to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Wellington. The building, a substantial wooden structure, contains five rooms as follows: the receiving room, 12ft. by 14ft.; the separator room, 10ft. by 20ft., in which there are two separators of Danish make with a capacity of 500 gals, an hour; the butter room, 12ft. by 30ft., which is provided with a revolving box churn of three hundredweight capacity, made in Wellington, and the latest appliances for butter-working; the store-room, 12ft. by 12ft, and the engine-room, 15ft. by 30ft., in which there is an eight-horse-power engine. The factory, when working, turns out four hundredweight of butter daily, and the output for the season is about twenty-five tons. The milk is paid for by test. Part of the butter is sold in Wellington and some is exported.