Booklet - Emerald Co-op history booklet, Jernkinson, Jo et al, A History of the Emerald and District Co-operative Society, 2005

Historical information

A history of the first sixty years of the Emerald and District Co-operative Society, written by Jo Jenkinson, Emerald Museum, at the invitation of Paul Frisk, Chairman of Directors. Based on new bulletins issued by the Co-op, minutes of Directors' meetings and AGMs, and personal memories of former employees of the Co-op. The Co-op was founded by farmers in the Emerald district in 1944-45, and had an important influence on farming and general development in the district in itsw early years. It subsequently became the major hardware supplier in Emerald, first under the Homestead Hardware chain, and later under the Mitre Ten umbrelloa.

Physical description

40 page soft cover booklet with black and white and coloured photographs

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