{"id":56,"date":"2023-11-11T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2023-11-12T07:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T07:54:44","slug":"maffra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/our-members\/maffra\/","title":{"rendered":"Maffra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maffra&#8217;s museum is housed in the office and weighbridge of the Sugar Beet factory &#8211; the only sugar beet factory in the southern hemisphere &#8211; which operated from 1898 for a couple of years and from 1910 until just after World War Two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-1536x870.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Sugar-beet-Museum-2048x1161.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artifacts connected to the sugar beet industry are a feature of the collection but there are also dairying, architecture archives, photographs, maps and other documents.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A range of <a href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/our-members\/maffra\/maffra-books-for-sale\/\">local publications<\/a> are available for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum is open from 10 am to 1 pm on the first Sunday of each month or for groups by appointment.  Admission is $2.50 for adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enquires 0437 29 69 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maffra&#8217;s museum is housed in the office and weighbridge of the Sugar Beet factory &#8211; the only sugar beet factory in the southern hemisphere &#8211; which operated from 1898 for a couple of years and from 1910 until just after World War Two. Artifacts connected to the sugar beet industry are a feature of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/69"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}