Oxford Road (Crown and then Okato and Puniho)
Circa 1905 - James McAllister
Dates: 1894-1915
Location: 165 Oxford Road, Okato, Taranaki (-39.204541, 173.888594)
Registration No: See Okato
Brand names: CROWN; KAIHIHI
NZMS1 - New Plymouth - N108 - 1943
The Oxford Road creamery was erected by the Crown Dairy Company in 1894 to supply the Crown butter factory in Okato 3 kms away.
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The creamery operated as part of the Crown Dairy Company until it was sold on 14 August 1905 to the newly formed Okato & Puniho Co-operative Dairy Company Limited. It continued as a creamery of that company until the local Oxford Road suppliers decided to form their own co-operative dairy company (the Oxford Road Co-operative Dairy Factory Limited) in 1915. At that point, the creamery was closed down and some of its plant was used by the new Oxford Road co-op company.
On 22 December 1915, the creamery site was sold to Mr WE Haylock and as at 1965, the creamery was being used as a hayshed by Mr Arthur Haylock, the then chairman of directors of the Oxford Road co-operative dairy company.
Crown Dairy Company related trade marks
1913 plan showing creamery site
Proof of purchase of creamery land in 1894 by Mr James Cartwright George (and others). Mr George was one of the proprietors of the Crown Dairy Company - he died on 6 March 1907 aged 62
Proof of sale of creamery site in 1905 by Mr James Cartwright George (and others) on behalf of the Crown Dairy Company to the Oxford & Puniho Co-op Dairy Company and then to W E Haylock in 1915.