Ballance is a farming community in Tararua District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.
Factory manager Thomas Broome was born in Christchurch in 1864, and had learned butter and cheese making in Lincoln and Dunedin.
[4] A photograph, taken about 1895, shows two men standing outside the factory in front of suppliers with horses, wagons, milk cans and carts.
Headmaster Andrew Anderson had been born in Edinburgh, Scotland, educated in Geelong, Victoria, and had arrived in New Zealand in 1874.
[4] It also had a store and post office run by Thomas Murphy, a native of Kerry, Ireland who had arrived in New Zealand in 1866 and also farmed 114 acres with dairy cows.
[1] In March 2009, Massey University student Catherine Peters died while jumping from the bridge when her rope came loose from her harness.