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Kaimai Cheese Company

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Kaimai Cheese Company

Kaimai Cheese Company at Waharoa is one of a number of specialty cheese producers in the Waikato region. The building, which houses a factory, store and café, has a facade based on a typical dairy factory of the 1920s – a nod to the heritage of Waharoa. The first dairy factory there was built in 1886, and the industry became a mainstay of the town.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Matamata, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27344/kaimai-cheese-company (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.