![]() The depression cut off the promised financial aid from the WA Department of Agriculture but he persisted and harvested his first crop in March 1931 and by 1939 had twelve acres in production. ![]() He had previously cultivated this variety for five years in Myrrhee in the North Eastern District of Victoria. Mr Bunn had had discussions with the management of the Swan Brewery and the Department of Agriculture in Perth and was sufficiently encouraged to start clearing land for planting with Golden Cluster hops he had brought with him from Victoria. J J Bunn, a dredging engineer from Victoria, attempted hop culture again on a commercial scale in 1929 at Pemberton. A decade later, J Blatt planted some Victorian hop cuttings from Mr Henley of Oxley, Victoria at Jarrahdale with such good results that the following year he was offering a quantity of hop cuttings for sale. There are two records of 19 th century hop growing in WA – a Captain Wilkinson of Woodbridge Estate, Guildford was noted for having grown hops successfully in 1873. In the 1930s, WA was the third state to establish hop growing on a commercial basis. ![]()
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