Gordon Road
Dates: 1903-1928
Location: SH45 nr corner of Gordon Road, Taranaki (-39.321099, 174.425369)
Registration No: see Stratford
Brand name: THREE STAR; GOOD LUCK
The Gordon Road creamery was built in 1903 by the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association Limited on a site purchased from the Crown Dairy Company in August 1902. A Babcock tester was placed in the creamery in 1910 and a post office opened in the creamery in August 1916 with Mr Stewart Clark as the Postmaster.
Cream was transported to the main butter factory in Stratford by Mr Fowler in his motor lorry from June 1917 and the creamery appears to have closed in 1928. Creamery managers included WM Sneddon in 1908-1909 and A Smith in 1917.
Plan showing the creamery site was surveyed by the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association Limited in August 1902
Creamery site survey January 1903