Official opening of the first wheat grain power alcohol distillery at Cowra, NSW, by the Minister for Supply and Shipping, Mr J. A. Beasley. Inspection of the spirit safe in the still house. Mr J. A. Beasley (Minister for Supply & Shipping), Dr Harman, Assistant Gen. Manager and Chief Technologist of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Mr H. Millard, Distillery Manager, Mr J. P. Breen, MHR for Calare, and Mr Cahill, Minister for Works, watching the operation
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More than three million gallons and [sic] power alcohol will be produced each year from about 1,250,000 bushells [sic] of wheat. Three other distilleries, each of the same capacity, will come into production at four monthly intervals in Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia repsectively [sic]. The complete programme of the 4 distilleries producing 12,000,000 gallons a year will cost £1,500,00. The grain distillery at Cowra was built, staffed, and operated during World War II by CSR for the Commonwealth Government.
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N305-A5-1-4-7 Cowra grain distillery photographs
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Dec 1943
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