At 05:35 PM 28/08/99 +1000, Robert wrote: >Does anyone know the date when the above factory closed down.? > Not an easy question!!!! The Orbost Butter Factory (and that may be only its "common" name) probably went through a heap of name changes and ownerships. The Orbost Butter and Produce Co. Ltd was registered as a co-operative 18 May 1892, and was still operating in 1911 (Greg Brinsmead, Gippsland Heritage Journal no.3). Like all the other factories in Gippsland it will have been slowly absorbed within the co-operative structure, which is now almost totally represented by the Murray Goulburn Co-operative, with its closest factory to Orbost still operating at Maffra. I do know that by some time in the 1970s the milk from Orbost was being carted to Maffra, but even then the Butter Factory building MAY still have been open as a depot. So the closure would have been so gradual it would be difficult to say when it actually happened. Cheers Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/