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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Karapiro

Karapiro.

Karapiro is a farming district on the east side of the Waikato river, on the Cambridge-Oxford road adjoining the borough. A good deal of the land has latterly been thrown open for close settlement, and has been well taken up, and a creamery, established by the New Zealand Dairy Association, is well supported.

The Karapiro Creamery (New Zealand Dairy Association, proprietors) was established in 1899. It is built of wood and iron, and contains a seven horse-power portable steam engine, which drives an Alexandra separator capable of treating 300 gallons per hour. The cream is sent daily to the Cambridge railway station. In the season of 1900–1901 there were fourteen suppliers, who milked about 250 cows.

Mr. Joseph William Tarry, Manager of the Karapiro Creamery, was born at Kumara, Westland, in 1878. He was educated in Auckland and was brought up to the trade of a bootmaker. For reasons of health he left his trade, and turned his attention to dairy work, and in 1898, he was employed at the Kapukanui Butter Factory in Taranaki. Two years later he was appointed to his present position.

Keeley, Gyles, Farmer, Karapiro. Mr. Keeley was born in 1851 in Warwickshire, England, where he was educated and brought up to agriculture, but he also served for several years as a railway guard on the Great Western Railway. He came to Auckland by the ship “Alumbagh” in 1875, and lived for eighteen years at Cambridge West, where he engaged in farming and also took contracts for road construction. Mr. Keeley's property at Karapiro consists of 200 acres of land and was bought in 1898. It is worked as a dairy farm, and Mr. Keeley milks thirty cows. Mr. Keeley was married, in 1884, to a daughter of the late Mr. J. Perkins, of Tenby, Wales, and has one son.