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Making cheese

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Making cheese

These men making cheese are in an unidentified dairy factory around 1910. They are draining the whey from the curds, which will form cheese once it has been made into blocks, pressed and dried.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Jane Tolerton, Agricultural processing industries – Dairy factories in the 20th and 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25157/making-cheese (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.