Chronicle of the Macksville Butter Factory

By Carrolline Rhodes
Updated August 9 2018 - 9:17am, first published 9:00am
Grand opening of the Nambucca Dairy Company's factory at North Macksville in 1912, image supplied by Nambucca Headland Museum
Grand opening of the Nambucca Dairy Company's factory at North Macksville in 1912, image supplied by Nambucca Headland Museum

The building on the banks of the river in North Macksville that is now a pile of rubble was a butter factory long before it housed Midco Melosi. Initially a wooden building – as most were in those days – it was built at a cost of £1,375 ($2,750) on land that had been purchased for £60 ($120) from W. Lake.

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