Stage Number: MBNH.11.05.05
Group: Northern
Local Study Area: Taigum-Zillmere-Aspley-Geebung
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: Pineapple Street, Zillmere
Latitude & Longitude: -27.35733333,153.03272222
Time Link: 1889
Map Link: 1891
Image Time Point: 1891
The ham and bacon business founded by James Carruthers Hutton in 1873 in Preston, Melbourne. The Ham and Bacon Factory at Zillmere opened in 1889. Part of the property continued to produce pineapples, from which the name Pineapple was used as a brand name, and other crops irrigated by waste water from the Bacon works. In 1908 the firm became J C Hutton Pty Ltd with John Reid as managing director in Queensland. He steered the firm through depression and drought making its “Pineapple” brand and the “Don’t Argue” trademark well known in Queensland and overseas especially in East Asia.
Chermside & Districts Historical Society
QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 1 mile to the inch. Queensland Census Districts. 1 mile to the inch. Government Engraving Office, Brisbane. 620650
