Showing 73 results

archival descriptions
Ken Buckley papers
Print preview View:

Ken Buckley papers

  • AU NBAC N260
  • Deposit
  • 1970s

Research papers collected while working on a history of Burns Philp & Co Ltd.

Buckley, Kenneth Donald

K Buckley's articles in 'The Economic Record', 'Historical Studies', 'Australian Economic History Review' and 'The Journal of Industrial Relations'

  1. Gipps and the graziers of New South Wales, 1841-6 / K Buckley (reprinted from 'Historical Studies', May 1955) -- 2. A new index of engineering unemployment, 1852-94 / K Buckley, University of Sydney (extract from 'The Economic Record', Mar 1967) -- 3. Will Thorne : constructive militant - Review article by K Buckley (extract from 'Journal of Industrial Relations', May 1975) -- 4. Membership of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in Australia, 1856-1889 / K Buckley, University of Sydney (extract from 'Australian Economic History Review', Sep 1967).

James Mackay (later Lord Inchcape)

Notes on mail contracts, 1925-6, service between Australia and the East with Papua and New Guinea as intermediate ports, 1926, and the Royal Commission on the Navigation Act - Reports and evidence, 1925, &c.

Trade in the South Pacific during the first world war

Includes: 1. Extracts from Official Year Books, 1918-1920. -- 2. Income and war-time profits tax (notes). -- 3. Burns Philp's trade in New Britain, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. -- 4. Interstate Commission of Australia : Report of British and Australian trade in the South Pacific, 1916 (notes).

Labour relations in Papua New Guinea

Includes: 1. ANZAAS congress, 1979 - Where have all the young men gone? Village economies in transition on colonial Papua New Guinea / Roderic Lacey, University of Papua New Guinea. -- 2. Plantation workforce by district of origin and year, 1979/1980. -- 3. Plantation labour and politics, Bougainville and Australia, 1912-1920 (notes). - 4. Rural minimum wages under Native Employment Ordnance, 1958-1968. -- 5. Papua New Guinea. Report of the Board of Inquiry investigating rural minimum wages /​ prepared by Research and Information Section, 1970

Economic, political and social conditions, Australia and the Pacific - Notes, extracts from published sources, &c

Extracts from: 1. Australian federal politics and law 1901-1929 /​ Geoffrey Sawer. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1956. -- 2. The middle-class and the property cycle during the industrial revolution by R. J. Morris, in The Search for wealth and stability : essays in economic and social history /​ presented to M. W. Flinn ; edited by T. C. Smout. London : Macmillan, 1979. -- 3. Report of the Royal Commission on Strikes : appointed November 25, 1890. Sydney : G.S. Chapman, Acting Government Printer, 1891. -- 4. Anglo-Australian relations a critique of the foreign policy of William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-1923 / P. J. (Peter James) Spartalis. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 1976. -- 5. Colonial and dependent economies /​ by E.E. Rich. Sydney : Department of Economics, University of Sydney, 1962. -- 6. Notes on the southern Pacific and Australian interests therein / Mr Walter Lucas, Mar 1917. Also Buckley's notes on Burns Philp and the depression of the 1890s.

Economic, political and social conditions, Australia and the Pacific - Notes, extracts from published sources, &c

Extracts from: 1. Colonialism, development and independence : the case of the Melanesian islands in the South Pacific /​ [by] H. C. Brookfield. Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1972. -- 2. The six years war : a concise history of Australia in the 1939-45 war /​ Gavin Long. Canberra : Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973. -- 3. War economy, 1939-1942 /​ by S. J. Butlin. Canberra : Australian War Memorial, 1955.

Capital (shares), personalities, &c

Includes: Interviews with former employees of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd and biographical notes and research material on James Burns, Robert Burns, &c.

Letterbooks (E W Knox) - Extracts

Topics include: staff problems (1911), wharf lumpers' strike (1911), Fiji (1911-1912), Labor Party (1912), British government's policy in Fiji (1911-1913), Commonwealth Royal Commission into the sugar industry of Queensland (1912), &c.

Economic development in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific

  1. An economic &​ cost survey of the copra industry in the territory of Papua &​ New Guinea /​ Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Canberra : Dept. of Commerce and Agriculture, 1953. -- 2. A touch of Australian enterprise : the Vanuatu experience /​ Mike Bishop, Ann Wigglesworth. Fitzroy, Vic. : International Development Action, 1982. (Subjects: Burns Philp & Co. Ltd, merchant marine - Australia, Vanuatu: economic development, foreign assistance, &c) -- 3. Current affairs bulletin. Sydney : Dept. of Adult Education, University of Sydney. vol. 58, no. 7 (Dec 1981) (articles include 'The whites get richer and the blacks get poorer', 'The South Pacific in the eighties and nineties', &c) -- 4. South Pacific dossier /​ [edited and designed by Gay Woods]. Canberra : Australian Council for Overseas Aid, 1978. (Subjects: South Pacific area, economic development, &c)

Queensland sugar industry

  1. Buckley's summary of 'A history of the ports of Queensland 1859-1939 : a study in Australian economic nationalism / by Glen Lewis'. -- 2. Truck and gifts: Melanesian immigrants and the trade box system in colonial Queensland. Past and Present, no.101, Nov 1983, p.-87--124 (journal article). -- 3. Implementation of the White Australia Policy in the Queensland sugar industry : Commonwealth control, 1901-1912.

Politics - Notes, research material, extracts from archival sources, &c

Topics: 1. Letter from E W Knox to E Forrest, MLC, Brisbane, 1881. -- 2. E Griffiths, Director, 1888, re. inadvisibility of GM occupying a seat on the Board of other companies. -- 3. E W Knox to CSR employees, 1898, advising voting against Convention Bill. -- 4. E W Knox to E Forrest, MLC, Brisbane,1898, re. Central Mills government interference. -- 5. E W Knox to Governor, 1900, re. proposed takeover of Fiji by NZ government. -- 6. Petition by CSR to Governor-General, 1902, re. discrimination against CSR, decision by Deakin. -- 7. R Gemmell-Smith, CSR Manager in Fiji, to E W Knox on reasons for public antagonism towards CSR Ltd and suggestions for combating it (includes Knox's reply), Oct/Nov 1902. -- 8. E. Simpson to R. Philp, Queensland Club, 1906, re. donation of £1,500 for Anti-Socialist Campaign. -- 9. E. Simpson to Sir Edward Smith, 1906, advising donation of £1,500 to suppress the 'socialist wave'. -- 10. E. Simpson to E.W.Knox, 1907, re. conversations with Federal Attorney-General about proposed companies' legislation. -- 11. Anti-CSR: letter E.Simpson, Board of 'The Sun' newspaper, to E.W. Knox, 1911, re. politics of newspapers; opinion re. prosecution of 'The Sun'. -- 12. E. Simpson to E.W.Knox, 1909, re. immigration policy. -- 13. British mismanagement in the Pacific, 1907 ( article).

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd - Extracts from archival sources

Topics include: Letter from E Knox to E W Knox re. appointment of Onslow Thompson to the Board in 1914; anti-CSR (article from 'Daily Mail', Nov 1922); anti-CSR (article from 'Labour Daily' Mar 1930); Edward Ritchie Knox (article from 'Smith's Weekly' Jul 1926); E W Knox (articles in 'Smith's Weekly' Nov 1930, May 1933); retirement of E R Knox (article in 'The Financial Review', 1964); Sir Edward Knox (article from 'Insurance and Banking Record' Jan 1901); Dr R W Harman, Director, on retirement of Sir Edward Knox, 1964 (article from CSR Newsletter no. 87, 1965); notes on tooth family's connection with the Colonial sugar Refining Company

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd - Extracts from archival sources

Topics include: Anti-CSR (first draft for chapter on attacks on CSR for South Pacific Enterprise); letter from Governor of Fiji to E W Knox re. various matters connected with the government in Fiji, 1902; Fiji- biographical notes on W P Dixon, small-farm system, 'Crisis in the Fiji sugar industry, 1920-5' by W Dixon; remarks by E W Knox to the elected members of Council, Nov 1918, re. labour conditions, Indian immigration, &c; notes from London (E W Knox), 1922 re. meetings with British government, &c; letter to Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji, from CSR, including note on assets held outside Australia; W P Dixon on the sugar industry in Fiji, 1930; leter written for 'Asia' by H King Irvine, Oct 1940, protesing against an article in the 1939 issue entitled 'Fiji: the Sugar Barony'.

Commercial trade in Fiji - Notes, extracts from published works

  1. Indigenous trade in Fiji and Tonga : a study of changing patterns / DA Couper (photocopy). -- 2. The way of the land and the path of money : the generation of economic inequality on eastern Fiji / paper by Bruce Knapman, University of South Pacific, Fiji. -- 3. Indigenous involvement in the cash economy of Lau, Fiji / by Bruce Knapman, University of South Pacific, Fiji.