Huge Butter Churn.
Made in Christchurch for a Waikato dairy factory, what is desoribed as the largest butter cliurn in the world was unshipped at Auckland from the steamer Waimarino yesterday. Its barrel alone weighs more than nine tons and its gear-box tliree tons six hunclredweight. In one churning it can produce 100 hoxes of butter, or 56001b., and for each full churning it takes 1400 gallons of cream.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 4
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69Huge Butter Churn. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 4
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