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Harriet McMaster), with which Triggs may have been involved. Later in 1932 the Meadow Lea factory was moved to 34 Wellington Street, Newtown. By March 1933 there were 70 employees working in the factory. In 1934 Triggs hired James (Jim) Andrew Armstrong as a sales manager, on commission, for
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Kalanderian into a 1,162sqm block with a new five-bedroom house, numbered 22A Sydney Road, which was for sale in April 2022 for $ 8.5 million as never-been-lived-in.
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