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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

Childers Mill, Queensland

Photographs show the Barracks, mill yard, the dam in flood and drought, cane punts, drought cane, hiring cane cutters, weigh bridge, cane train and wagons tipping cane, old and new cane carriers, mechanical unloaders, mill interiors - rollers, furnaces, filters, pumps, boilers etc., sugar floor, molasses fodder, views of a chimney being erected, cane cutters at work, machinery; pictures of a locust plague and the effects on cane, views of cane pests and 'A Smash' in the mill.

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.

Macknade Mill

Part of a photograph album, undated and without identification. Comparison with other photographs suggest two views are of Macknade - a cane train on Ana Branch Bridge and a view of cane transport over the Herbert River. 1908. Other views show passengers on a cane train, horse jumping, a group of seven men (probably CSR staff), a tennis match, Manager's house? and a woman on horseback

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 and other Mills and Districts. Taken by C. O. Randell, C.S.R. Chemist. Album No. 5

Most appear to be of Harwood Mill and the Clarence River, NSW. Subjects include river scenes showing a large sailing vessel, steam boats, sheds along water, cannons on boat, men walking on shoreline, launches, cane punts, houses and mill, mill interior with machinery and equipment, mill staff, chemists in laboratory (including Blaxland)

Early Photographs of Hambledon, and other Mills and Districts. Taken by C. O. Randell, C.S.R. Chemist. Album No. 4.

Photographs include the Clarke family, Bowen jetty, The Brook, Green Hills picnic party, 'Kanaka' houses, cane trucks, office and lab, the Pyramid mountain, staff quarters, hair cutters, boiler explosion, view of Hambledon Mill, cane cutters (South Sea Islander labourers), family and children, interiors of a mill

Early Photographs of Hambledon, other Mills and Districts. Taken by C. O. Randell, CSR Chemist. Album No. 3

Captions for photographs include: Using polariscope, testing sugar cane; Lord Hoptoun train; Locomotive at Hambledon Mill; Lord Hopetoun and party; the home Lord Hopetoun resided in at Hambledon Plantation; Mulgrave river; Boiler explosion; Aboriginal family, Mulgrave District; Mummy of Aboriginal Chief [restricted access]; Japanese house boy [with snake]; P.J Doyle and party; Hambledon Mill by moonlight; Japanese house, Cairns; Grass tennis courts at sugar mill; Mill staff D. N. Reed, A. C. Paine, D. W. Williamson, C. O. Randall; Full mill staff; Barron Falls; Picnic near falls; First planting of Badilla sugar cane at Greenhills; Brugan cane; Chinese picnic near Cairns

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 .

Annual reports 1888-1942 (with gaps). Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Mar 1888 - Mar 1899, Sep 1900 - Sep 1906, Sep 1907 - Mar 1910, Sep 1911 - Mar 1915, Mar 1916 - Sep 1916, Sep 1917 - Sep 1918, Sep 1919, Mar 1922 - Mar 1923, Sep 1924 - Mar 1928, Sep 1930, Mar 1934 - Sep 1936, Sep 1937, Mar 1942. Reports for C.S.R.Co. (Fiji and N.Z.) Limited for Mar 1916, Mar 1918, Mar 1920, Mar 1922. Included is an account of the Proceedings at the Presentation to E.W. Knox, Esq. (Jubilee Celebration) 20 Feb 1914

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