The last operating broom factory was Mr Monty Williams's which opened in 1942 in the building that is now the Tinonee Museum. It closed in the 1950s when the factory moved to Taree.7 The entrance to the Museum now displays brooms from this period of industry.
Further information: Visit the Tinonee Historical Museum, 32 Manchester Street, Tinonee.
1 Macleay Argus, 28 March 1894; Macleay Argus, 6 February 1895, Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of NSW, 18 June 1898; Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 9 August 1899.
2 Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 23 February 1901; Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of NSW, 24 April 1901.
3 Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 17 July 1901.
4 Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of NSW, 14 March 1936.
5 Northern Champion, 19 April 1930; Ibid., 5 September 1931.
6 Ibid., 24 November 1937.
7 Ibid., 6 December 1947; Tinonee Historical Society Inc. http://www.tinoneemuseum.org.au/about-us.html.
8 Tinonee Historical Society, Tinonee Memories Revised (2016), 34.