Published Resources Details
Book Section
- Title
- Chaffey, George (1848-1932), irrigation pioneer, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, and William Benjamin (1856-1926), agriculturist and irrigation planner
- In
- Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch
- Imprint
- Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 599-601
- Url
- http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070609b.htm
- Format
- Description
Published online in 2006
- Abstract
Quote: W.B. Chaffey "worked long hours to bring his orchard of some 200 acres (81 ha) into production and established the Mildura (later Mildara) Winery Pty Ltd which in 1914 moved its headquarters to Merbein. Active from 1895 in the development of marketing procedures for local fruit, he became a leading member of both the Mildura and the Australian Dried Fruits associations and was president of the latter for many years. In 1903 he was elected president of the Mildura Shire Council and in 1920 first mayor of Mildura Borough."