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■ ■ !..i .... * i - Passing of Mr. J. Ambury ERECTED FIRST CREAMERY
(By Tftlegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. One of the founders of the dairy produce export business in New Zealand, Mr Joseph Ambury, died at his residence at Epsom to-day. Mr Ambury came to New Zealand in 1884. He started a small dairy business in Newton in 1885, supplying several milk rounds. A year later the firm of Ambury 's Ltd. was founded. This business grew and commenced the manufacture of butter, and for many years supplied butter and milk to the Union Steamship Cornpany. Th.e first creamery erected in New Zealand was built at Mangere by Joseph Ambury in 1886. The business was later extended to the Waikato, where Mr- Ambury eventually built twenty creameries in various parts of the district, with the main factory at Frankton. Some years later these plants were sold to the New Zealand Dairy Association. In 1889 the firm shipped the first ton of factory butter to England from Auckland, the shipment creating considerable interest in England. Although in his 90th year, Mr Ambury was active and alert.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 79, 20 April 1937, Page 4
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