This is an article from the Australian Advertiser dated 4 May 1891 pg 3 from the Trove website. The article describes in detail the opening of the mill.
Katanning Flour Mill
c. 1900This picture shows the front of a three storey brick building which has five windows on the second and third floors. On the ground floor there are three large windows, a small window and then a large doorway. On the side view of the building on each floor there are a small window, a doorway and another window. There is a bull nosed verandah around the front and side of the building. At the front of the building there are wooden posts connected with chains, and a electricity pole on the street pavement on the right hand side of the building. In the top centre of the picture, behind the building is a chimney stack. On the side view of the picture and behind the flour mill is another single storey brick building that appears to be connected to the flour mill.
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At the top of the building is written 'Katanning 1891 Premier Roller Flour Mills.' At the top left front of the building is a white painted sign which has the words 'Premier Roller Flour', with a black swan underneath the word 'Premier'. The remaining words on this sign cannot deciphered. Underneath this sign is another white painted sign with the words 'Merchants Millers Grain Buyers Office ' written in black. The last word on this sign cannot be deciphered.
Frederick Henry Piesse and his brother Charles Austin gave the contract to build a roller flour mill to Messrs. Thorn, Bower, & Stewart, of York. It was built within fifteen weeks and officially opened on the 4th May 1891 by Hon J.A. Wright the manager of the WA Land Company.
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Courtesy of Katanning Historical Society.
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