They probably didn't ship them from Australia for political Kiwi job protection reasons so they had F&P manufacture them under license.
This is a very common scenario in Canada for the last century. Our small population isn't large enough to support our own manufacturing and be slammed by an onslaught of giant US companies. So various excise taxes and duties were put in place to make US imports unattractive unless the US company built a plant in Canada or licensed a Canadian manufacturer to build some of their product here for the Canadian market.
Hoover and Electrolux built plants, Eureka and quite a few others had their Canadian machines built by licensee's in Canada. Also, during the 1900's, if a US company had some of their products "made in Canada" those labelled products would be exempt or pay less of the punishing import duties/taxes that other British Commonwealth countries imposed on US made goods in order to protect their own manufacturing bases.
