Horse hoeing beet crop at Maffra, 1911
Horse hoeing beet crop at Maffra, 1911
Maffra, a rural town in East Gippsland, is 180 km east of Melbourne and 20 km north of Sale. It is on the Macalister River, which is dammed upstream at Lake Glenmaggie, and is the centre for a large irrigated dairy industry.
Maffra was part of the Boisdale pastoral run taken up by Angus McMillan, on behalf of Lachlan Macalister in 1840. McMillan had the Bushy Park run to the east, separated from Boisdale by the Avon River.
Horse hoeing beet crop at Maffra, 1911
Maffra sugar beet factory, 1912
Weighing beets, Powerscourt siding, Maffra, 1920
Beet plot at Maffra factory, 1920
Special beet train at Maffra factory bins, 1920
Carting beet pulp from Maffra factory, 1936
Maffra Co-operative and the Nestle Factory, 1963
Maffra Railway Station, 1926
Maffra, 2002
Maffra, 2002
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