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NZ Herald
24-05-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Pastures Past: Butter churning in New Zealand in the 1930s
Butter Making To the editor. Taranaki Herald, May 5, 1886 Sir,—A good churn is such a luxury that you will kindly permit me to say that the new barrel churns manufactured by the New Plymouth Sash and Door Factory supply a long felt want. I got one a short time since from them, and I am splendidly satisfied with it. It churned 91lbs. at one churning in three-quarters of an hour; there was no waste, no splash, and with the little glass panel that I had inserted in the side, one can tell the exact moment to put in the salt and water without opening the lid and looking in. These churns are good, and cheap, and by purchasing them one is supporting a local industry, instead of sending the money to America for little churns that require from 1 to 12 hours' turning, according to the state of the weather, and then only turn out 20lbs. of butter.—I am, &c., W. R. Wright. New Zealand butter New Zealand Herald, October 20 1930 Sir, —I read with interest the letter of Mr. Hartley on Danish butter and New Zealand butter. Has distance from the market no bearing on the situation? The Danes are a matter of hours, while we are weeks away. It is a matter of solemn fact that we have the finest pastures in the world of English grasses and clover, etc., and no feed is more suitable for the production of butter, cheese, milk or cream. A man told me that he worked in a butter factory in the Old Country and that when they ran short of their own butter they made a practice of putting New Zealand butter in their churns with their own buttermilk, giving it a little rolling in the churns and finally selling it as finest English farmers' butter, a butter which always brings a higher price than even Danish. CREAM FARMER. Churns too large Pahiatua Herald, December 15, 1931 'I'm rather afraid of those big churns,' remarked Lord Bledisloe, when inspecting the butter making room at Te Rehunga dairy factory, where the 'small' churns deal with a ton of butter at a time and the larger one with a ton and a half. 'The Danes don't use any of larger capacity than 9 cwt.,' he explained. 'They think the great weight being dashed about tends to break up the fat globules, and in New Zealand butter that is done.' Outsize in churns Largest in world 100 boxes of butter Advertisement Advertise with NZME. (Special to the Herald.) Poverty Bay Herald, October 12, 1937 AUCKLAND, this day. Made in Christchurch for a Waikato dairy factory, what is described as the largest butter churn in the world was unshipped at Auckland from the steamer Waimarino yesterday. Its barrel alone weighs more than nine tons, and its gear box weighs three tons 6cwt. In one churning it can produce 100 boxes of butter or 5600lb, and for each full churning it takes 1400 gallons of cream. The churn was made almost entirely in Christchurch by the engineering firm of Andersons, Limited, who have been making churns since 1918. In that time the sizes of churns manufactured have increased from those producing 22 boxes or 160lb of butter, to this latest one producing 100 boxes or 5600lb, and enough butter for 56,000 persons for one meal.
RNZ News
19-05-2025
- RNZ News
Treaty settlement renames iconic sites in central North Island
A large scenic reserve extending from west of Waimarino south to Horopito has been named Ngātokoerua Scenic Reserve. Photo: LDR/Moana Ellis Tribal place names have been restored for prominent landmarks and places across the central North Island. Eleven name changes to mountains, a lake, scenic reserves and other places have been made following the treaty settlement of iwi collective Te Korowai o Wainuiārua. The changes gazetted by Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board include seven new and altered geographic names, including two Crown-protected area names. Four Crown-protected area names have been discontinued. Lake Hawkes, a lake 19km west-northwest of Waimarino, which feeds into Waikauwau Stream, is now Lake Pohoare. Mount Dawson, 24km west-northwest of Waimarino, is now Ōruru Maunga. Tahora, a small site on State Highway 43 Forgotten World Highway, 14km north-northeast of Whangamōmona, is now Tahorapāroa, and Tahora Saddle, a pass on the highway about 10km north-northeast of Whangamōmona, is now Tahorapāroa Saddle. The fifth altered name is Mount Humphries in the Matemateaonga Range, 45km east of Stratford, which becomes Whakaihuwaka Maunga. A new Crown-protected area name has been created. A large scenic reserve extending from immediately west of Waimarino, south to Horopito, has been named Ngātokoerua Scenic Reserve. The reserve has been created through the reclassification of Erua Conservation Area and Erua Forest Sanctuary as a scenic reserve. Another Crown-protected area - a scenic reserve on State Highway 43 Forgotten World Highway, about 15km north-northeast of Whangamōmona - has been changed from Tahora Scenic Reserve to Tahorapāroa Scenic Reserve. The names Erua Forest Sanctuary (for a sanctuary area 6km south-southwest of Waimarino), Ngapakihi Scenic Reserve and Raetihi Scenic Reserve (for scenic reserves immediately south of Raetihi), and Pipiriki Scenic Reserve (for a scenic reserve at Pipiriki) have been discontinued. The Te Korowai o Wainuiārua Claims Settlement Act 2025 came into effect in March, bringing an end to decades of claims work by the people of Uenuku, Tamakana and Tamahaki (represented collectively as Te Korowai o Wainuiārua) over breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Geographic Board gazetted the changes last week. In December last year, Land Information Minister Chris Penk approved changing the name of National Park Village to Waimarino, following a request by Te Korowai o Wainuiārua researchers. Waimarino is the original Māori name for the area, referring to "calm waters" pooling on the plains as they leave the mountain. The Geographic Board considered more than 2000 submissions on the proposal. LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.
