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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.

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