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Miscellaneous printed material, some concerned with farming.

Includes:
'The crimes of Germany' (being the Special Supplement issued by The Field newspaper revised and brought up to date with extra illustrations) ; advertising material on plants, including lupins and perennial pyrethrums, West Drayton, Middlesex: Reamsbottom ; City of Oxford High School for Boys, Proceedings at the unveiling of the memorial to Lawrence of Arabia 3 October 1936, Oxford: Thornton, 1937 ; Report of the Executive Committee of the Godman Memorial Fund [Woodford’s name appears among the subscribers]. The Journal of the Central Landowners' Association, vol, 10 part 4, Dec 1929; pamphlet on Bookplates and Heraldry, published by Cartier; pamphlet: How Landowners can Help in Saving British Agriculture; Report of the Agricultural Organization Society, 1922; Report of the Executive Committee of the Godman Memorial Fund, 1923; pamphlet: George V: the Sailor King; The 'W.E.P.' Series of Philatelic Handbooks- Falkland Islands by Bertram W. H. Poole; Gravesend Magazine, Sept 1912; pamphlet: Iodine for Livestock by Frank Ewart Corrie;

W G Davies and Company deposit 2

  • AU NBAC N375
  • Deposit
  • 1930 - 1975

Station records, correspondence, financial files, stock and rainfall returns, notebooks and diaries, maps, and inspection and manager's reports relating to Landsdowne Pastoral Co and Malvern Hills Pastoral Co, including Athol, Mount Edinburgh, Southlands, Comfort Hill, Bayrick, and Tambo stations. Personal correspondence and financial records of WG Davies and MG Davies.

W G Davies and Company

Miscellaneous documents concerning the Woodfords domestic life.

Includes a printed description of The Grinstead (freehold property in West Sussex), auctioned on 29 April 1914 on instructions of trustees of late J. A. Mack [and presumably purchased by Woodford]; insurance of Woodford effects in 1915 and (principally) 1923; a set of letters and other documents in 'Stolzenberg' patent file relating to Woodford insurance policies and other financial matters, including purchase of The Grinstead, 1912 -1915.

Correspondence about the vessel, the Albatross.

Letter dated 16 June 1897 to Woodford from the Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London expressing gratitude for Woodford’s help to the vessel Albatross while it was engaged in scientific pursuits in Solomon Islands; a second letter to Woodford dated 23 October 1902 from Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Charge d’Affaires, on the same matter; and a calling card of Le Chevalier Joseph Mauler d’Elisenau, Capitaine de Corvette, Commandant S M cannon ere, Albatross.

Documents related to Woodford's honours and appointments - military, professional and official appointments,

Documents include: Letter from John Bates Thurston, Consul General, Fiji, dated 24 December 1894 appointing Charles M. Woodford to be the acting British Consul at Samoa ; Handwritten letter From John B. Thurston, dated 28 December 1894, informing him of his appointment as Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific, for the district comprising the Samoan and Union Groups (plus amendment letter dated 1 February 1895), together with the sealed commission document, 29 December 1894 ; Letter dated 15 February 1896 from Acting Colonial Secretary (Fiji) to Woodford appointing him as temorary Stipendiary Magistrate in the Province of Nadroga ; Commission dated 17 February 1897 as British Resident in the Protectorate established by Her Majesty in the Solomon Islands ; Letter dated 13 June 1912 informing Woodford of his apointment to the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, together with Woodford's replies dated 10 August 1912 ; Annual Service in St Paul's Cathedral, 23 April 1928 ; Woodford's Commission as an Officer (Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 21 September 1875) ; Commission as an Officer (Sub-Lieutenant) in the Volunteer Forces from 7 January 1874 (Kent Artillery Corp, 6 January 1874) ; Letter from the Director, American Geographical Society requesting Woodford's acceptance as a Fellow of the Society ; Letter from L. Harcourt, Downing Street, dated 15 June 1912, congratulating Woodford on his C.M.G. ; Certificate from the Zoological Society of London, electing Charles M. Woodford as a corresponding member of the Society, dated 21 November 1889 ; Certificate of Proficiency for Captains, Subalterns in Infantry and Artillery Drill, dated 27 October 1874 ; Letter from Henry Lambert, Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, January 1915 accepting Woodford's resignation of the 28 ultimo ; Newspaper clipping from the Morning Post, 23 June 1909, The King's Levee.

Woodford, C M, 'The canoes of the British Solomon Islands', Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol XXXIX, July - Dec 1909, pp 506 - 516

One copy of the reprint has been edited in Woodford's hand in red. The island of Ysabel should read New Georgia:
Plate XLI - Head-hunting canoe from Ysabel (New Georgia)
Plate XLII - Head-hunting canoe from Ysabel (New Georgia)
Plate XLIII - Head-hunting canoe from Ysabel (New Georgia)
Plate XLIV - Head-hunting canoe from Ysabel (New Georgia)

Correspondence and unpublished manuscripts of Sione Latukefu

  • AU ANUA 523
  • Series
  • 1962 - 1995

Correspondence, reports, press cuttings, research materials, contracts and employment documents, lecture notes and student essays, conference programs, manuscripts and publications, and interview tapes. Also includes records related to the Tongan History Association.

Latukefu, Sione

Australian Agricultural Company (Australian Office) deposit 9

  • AU NBAC Z629
  • Deposit
  • 1912 - 1996

This deposit consists of all types of company records for the Australian Agricultural Company, for its stations and subsidiary companies: AA & P Joint Holdings Pty Ltd; Austcattle Holdings Pty Ltd; Blythe Brothers pty Ltd; Brighton Downs; Brunette Downs; Connor Doherty & Durack Pty Ltd; Cooper River Pastoral Co Pty Ltd; D K Gordon Pty Ltd; Fielder Downs (WA) Pty Limited; Goonoo Goonoo; Gregory Downs; Hann River Pastoral Co Pty Ltd; Headingly; James McLeish Estates Pty Ltd; Mount House Pastoral Company; Mount House and Glenroy Stations; Muttama; Naroo Pastoral Co Pty Ltd; NT Pastoral Co Pty Limited; Rockhampton Downs; The Gulf Cattle Company Pty Ltd; Tullin Tulla; Union Pastoral Investments Pty Ltd; Waxahachie Pty Ltd; Windy; Wondoola; Woodhouse and Wrotham Park. The records include financial records, wage summaries, minutes, annual reports, superannuation plan records, station records and monthly reports, correspondence, deeds, memoranda and articles of association, share certificates, statutory accounts, wage records and group certificates.

Australian Agricultural Company

Marie Reay anthropology collection

  • AU ANUA 440
  • Series
  • 1940 - 2006

Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes. Includes material from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS).

Reay, Marie Olive

Builders' Labourers' Federation Federal Office deposit

  • AU NBAC N130
  • Deposit
  • 1910 - 1990

Minutes of Federal Council (1923-1984) and Federal Management Committee (1940-1985 with gaps), rules, general files (1947-1986), industrial files (1913-1990) with index, files relating to the Royal Commission into the activities of the BLF and deregistration proceedings, balance sheets, press cuttings (1970-1989), printed material, posters, photographs, cartoons and sketches by C Stokes and Coxsedge.

Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation

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