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Busselton Historical Society > Records

Invoice - Blackwattle Cheese Factory

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1940

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Blank Invoice. Blackwattle Cheese Factory, Tutunup, W.A. J.R. Strong, proprietor

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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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cwa-org-124-2024.221

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198 mm

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170 mm

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John Richard Strong

Blackwattle Cheese Factory

South West Co-Operative Dairy Farmers Ltd.

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