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Government offered a bounty to the first company to produce sugar locally. Already interested in business prospects in New Zealand, the Australian Colonail sugar Refinary had investigated possible sites in New Zealand and purchased 160 acres (0.65 km2) of farm land in Birkenhead. This was later expanded to 450 acres (1.8 km2). The site was ideal for a refinery: the Waitemata offered deep water close to shore for a port, there was plentiful fresh water from Duck Creek, which ran through the estate, and there was plenty of land and timber for building purposes. The name "Chelsea" was bestowed on the site by the refinery's first customs officer, who named it after Chelsea in England. 

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