30 Mouat St (was 46 pre 1938) Strelitz Buildings.
Pre 1897 Mr. Hitchcock's Reminiscences: On portion of the site of Strelitz's Buildings there stood an old two-storied house with gable ends, and next to it was a first-class boarding house conducted by Mr. John Henderson, under the sign of "Auld Reekie." (reference)
Originally from Hamburg, Richard Strelitz was a German-born Jew who came to WA in 1893. He lived in High Street, Fremantle, and became a lieutenant in the Fremantle Infantry (militia). When his brother Paul arrived in 1894 they established Strelitz Brothers, Merchants and Shipping Agents, of Fremantle and Kalgoorlie, and then a second business in Perth and were influential in international trade and diplomacy and local politics in Perth and Fremantle. The Strelitz Brothers company was closely identified with the commercial expansion of Perth and Fremantle, during Western Australia's gold boom of the 1890s. Strelitz Bros also held the agency for Alfred Nobel's Hamburg Explosive Company, Ltd and through this had agencies for magazines in the goldfields. They also imported railway material and mining machinery.
Richard was popular and successful, and by 1901 he was consul to Denmark, and then also to Sweden and Norway.
Contrary to historic references of Richard Strelitz being interned as an enemy alien during the 1914 - 1918 war, he was not. But he was under a heavy cloud of suspicion from those who didn’t know him, and he moved his family to Sydney in 1917. Paul later followed with his family where, in NSW, they flourished.
OCCUPANTS
Lot 49 owners:
1855 - 1878 Pace, Ann
1879 Carter, H & Co.
1897 William Lovegrove Solicitor, No 1 Strelitz Buildings
A.U.S.N co, shipping
No. 30
1910 - 1920 Strelitz Building
Strelitz Bros, importers and shipping & commercial agents
1910 - 1911 Brown & Dureau, mercantile brokers
1910 - 1914 German Aust. S. S. Co. Strelitz Bros. agents
1910 - 1916
Strelitz, Paul, consul for the Netherlands
Strelitz, Richard, consul for Sweden & Denmark
1921 - 1939 Majora Buildings
1921 - 1926 Thorn, W J, carrier
1921 - 1946 Turton, A, lighting agent
1921 - 1949 Evans & Co. George, paint manufacturers
1928 Wattle Preparation Coy
