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Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Illuminated Address Gideon Nicol, 2014
... garvoc butter and cheese company... Factory and the Garvoc Cheese and Butter Factory and was a Shire... shire garvoc butter and cheese company ‘Gideon Nicol, July 16th ...Gideon Nicol (1836-1908) was a seaman who came to Warrnambool in 1858. In 1865 he selected land at Mount Warrnambool . He was one of the founders of the Farnham Cheese and Butter Factory and the Garvoc Cheese and Butter Factory and was a Shire Councillor from 1879 to 1906. These items will be useful to include in the Gideon Nicol file.These are scans of two pages from a book and an illuminated manuscript. One page is red with an ornate border and the other is blackish with an ornate border. The illuminated address is multi-coloured with an ornate border‘Gideon Nicol, July 16th 1906’; ‘G.N.’warrnambool, gideon nicol, illuminated address, warrnambool shire, garvoc butter and cheese company -
Cheese World Museum
Book, Attendance Book -Director's Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Ltd -Oct 1932 to 28 Feb 1985, c1932
... Attendance Book -Director's Warrnambool Cheese and Butter...Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Ltd... Cheese and Butter Factory Company Ltd Garvoc Allansford board ...Commercial account book used to record attendance at board meetings of the directors of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Limited including special board meetings. Meetings were held at Allansford and Garvoc. Signatures of directors between November 1932 and February 1985 are recorded. M Burke was chairman during this period from the first entry in 1932 until June 1953. Other directors at the first recorded meeting were James Burleigh, RP Harney, JP Logan, JC Mattinson, TC Blain; WA Anderson was absent. James Burleigh was another long-term director retiring in June 1960. Final entry is 28 February 1985 when John F Anderson was in the chair; directors were JP Mahony, Anthony Rea, James McKinnon, MG Carey, Charles j Wines, Douglas J Logan. A second attendance book is also in the collection.This Attendance Book is important because it is the earliest known original record of directors' attendance at board meetings as previous records from 1888 were destroyed in a fire in 1929. It also records the succession of families from father to son to the board.Rectangular commercially printed portrait orientations hard bound account book with green paper tape on spine; covered in gold paper with sticker on the front adhered with sticky tape; typewritten label in capital letters ATTENDANCE BOOK with decorative typed underlining. The early entries are in ink and change to ballpoint pen for later entries.[Board] Meeting held at Garvoc factory 17th November 1932warrnambool cheese and butter factory company ltd, garvoc, allansford, board meetings, directors, 1932 to 1985, burke, burleigh, anderson -
Cheese World Museum
Certificate, Grand Annual Exhibition 1939, 1939
... garvoc cheese and butter factory...Kraft-Walker Cheese Company commenced in Allansford in 1935... agricultural shows product awards garvoc cheese and butter factory ...Kraft-Walker Cheese Company commenced in Allansford in 1935 leasing the factory premises from Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company. Dairy companies entered competitions organised by the Dairy Industry Association and associated organisations and local agricultural societies to encourage improvement in products. Some of these awards are considered prestigious and highly regarded within the industry. The certificates were passed to Cheese World Museum by the factory management. This certificate was held by the factory management until transfer to Cheese World Museum. The certificate provides an insight into the dairy industry during the late 1930s.A white card with gold and blue print. The is a gold band along the top and bottom and borders in gold. A 'prize cup' is printed in gold on the left hand side. Text is in blue print.Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria/ Grand Annual Exhibition 1939/ Champion Awarded to Kraft Walker Cheese Co Pty Ltd/ Exhibit Cheese Garvoc Factory/ Class No 435/ Louis Monod, Secretary/ COPYRIGHT/ H HEARNE & CO PTY LTD, Latrobe Street, Melbourneallansford, dairy awards, kraft walker cheese co pty ltd, royal agricultural society of victoria, agricultural shows, product awards, garvoc cheese and butter factory -
Cheese World Museum
Photograph, Kraft Walker Cheese Pty Ltd Garvoc Branch factory, c1940
... Kraft Walker Cheese Company... into an agreement with Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company in 1935... into an agreement with Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company in 1935 ...The Kraft Walker Cheese Co Pty Ltd entered into an agreement with Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company in 1935 whereby the Kraft company leased premises from WCB. This arrangement remained in place until the 1990s. WCB took over the Garvoc factory in the 1920s. It became outdated and was eventually demolished.Black and white photograph showing timbered building with iron roof and turned wooden finial on the gable end. There are three timber ventilation ducts on the roof. The gable end has sign Kraft Walker Cheese Co Pty Ltd Garvoc Branch. A concrete block addition is at the front. A tray truck with milk cans is in between the main factory building and the outbuilding.garvoc, allansford, dairy industry, food manufacture, kraft walker cheese company, factories, cheese, kraft foods ltd, transport, milk cans