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Noel Butlin Archives Centre CSR Limited Head Office deposit
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CSR Limited Head Office deposit

  • AU NBAC 142
  • Deposit
  • 1847 - 1970

The bulk of these records consist of Head Office correspondence between 1855 and 1947. Until 1947, Head Office outward letters were copied in press copy letter books. Most have detailed indexes, including the inward letters received from 1903. Where gaps exist in the Head Office series, or the material is damaged or fragile it is sometimes possible to locate the same content in the Branch or Mill end of the correspondence.

The deposit also consists of annual reports, share records, New Zealand Sugar Company Limited board minutes, legal documents re lands in Fiji (1885-1970), chemical records, technical reports and data re sugar production, circulars, price lists, photographs (1868-1961) and press cuttings. Items 3619-4100 consist of photographs, series of photographs and albums.

These records contain information on CSR refineries in Australia and New Zealand, raw sugar mills in Australia and Fiji, sugar marketing, distilleries, ocean vessels, pineapple canning in Fiji, the beginnings of the divisions of building materials and industrial chemicals, mining, and defence projects 1939-1945. Also includes correspondence and records of the Australasian Sugar Company, and Robey and Company.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Album of photographs of CSR mills, cane fields, labourers, other people and local sights

  1. People standing at the bottom of a waterfall -- 2. Jeroma [Jourama?] falls -- 3. Aboriginal family (man, woman and two children) -- 4. Dog sitting on a rock -- 5. Man in a cave -- 6. Horse and cart travelling on a road beside the cane fields -- 7-8. South Sea Islander labourers ['Kanakas'] tending field -- 9. Horse and cart travelling over bridge -- 10. Ship at a pier -- 11. Victoria mill -- 12. Macknade mill -- 13. Group of 16 Aboriginal men, women and a boy, with boomerangs and shields -- 14. Crocodile on riverbank -- 15. View from shore -- 16. Wreck of the SS Elingamite at Three Kings -- 17. Living quarters and mill -- 18. Cliffs -- 19. Garden -- 20. Cave -- 21. Large house

Early Photographs of Hambledon, other Mills and Districts. Taken by C.O. Randell, CSR Chemist. Album No. 1

Photographs appear to be of Ingham District and include trains on the main line Daradgee, Goondi 1910; loaded cane, a family group beside home, possibly Macknade River Bridge, Hambledon Mill carrier, the Daradgee River Bridge, and others. Includes a letter from the Librarian of the Richmond River Historical Society giving the 5 albums by C. O. Randell to CSR in 1965.

Fiji views - British Empire Exhibition album B

Nausori landscape showing river, building and, launches; Rarawai landscape showing mill and house on the river; Lautoka andscape and closeupsof mill buildings, housing and locomotive; Ba Valley landscape of cane fields; landscapes of the Ba Valley showing tramlines, cane fields and cane cutters at work; Indian workers and families outside their homes .

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