Tallangatta Butter Factory The Tallangatta Butter Factory and Creamery Co. Ltd was established as a co-operative with application for shares closing on 19 December 1891. It was registered in February 1892 and notified in the Victorian Government Gazette. It was one of the first north eastern Victoria dairy co-operatives. The Upper Murray and Mitta Herald on Thursday 23 March 1905 recorded that advice had been received of the sale in London of a shipment of 191 boxes of sent via India. The sale fetched a price at 105 shillings per cwt (hundredweight). When the township of Tallangatta was moved due to the raising of the Hume Weir in 1956, a new factory was built at the new location. It continued to operate until 1959 when it merged with the Kiewa Butter Factory to become the North Eastern Dairy Company. In 1985 this organisation was taken over by the Murray Goulburn Co-operative Eskdale Butter Company. After the selling of shares to form a co-operative, The Eskdale Butter Factory was officially opened on Saturday 26 November 1904. It closed after a merger with Murray Goulburn in 1969.This item is representative of the dairy industry in North East Victoria.2 wrappers for butter produced in North East Victoria by the Tallangatta Butter Factory and the Eskdale Butter Factory and Creamery. Both wrappers are a single sheet of folded paper with coloured images and logos.dairy industry victoria, tallangatta butter factory, eskdale butter factory

A soft covered publication outlining the history of the dairy industry and dairy cooperatives in North East Victoria. It contains text and images .This book was produced for the centenary of the North Eastern Dairy Company. Companies detailed in this publication include Yabba Cheese Factory, Tallangatta Butter Factory and Creamery Co. Ltd, Ovens & Murray Dairy Company Springhurst, Kiewa Butter & Cheese Factory & Creamery Co. Ltd., Eskdale Butter Factory Company Ltd, Holdenson & Nielson Fresh Food Pty. Ltd, Croyland Cheese Factory Walwa Creek Dairy Co. and the Cudgewa Dairy Company. With changes in farming population and technology many of the smaller companies merged or closed. In 1959 the Tallangatta and Kiewa factories merged to become the North Eastern Dairy Company which was taken over by the Murray Goulburn Co-operative in 1985.victorian dairy industry, north east victoria dairies, dairy cooperatives