Invoice - Blackwattle Cheese Factory
1940Blank Invoice. Blackwattle Cheese Factory, Tutunup, W.A. J.R. Strong, proprietor
J.R. Strong was the General Manager of the South-West Co-operative Dairy Ltd. He managed four dairy factories in the south-west, including Busselton Butter Factory between 1926-1929, and built the Capel Dairy Company in the 1930s.
In 1939, Strong purchased a property in Tutunup and he and his three sons established the Blackwattle Cheese Factory, the first private cheese factory to be erected on a dairy farm in Western Australia. Blackwattle Cheese supplied cheese to Watsons of Fremantle until 1956.
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