The deposit comprises the records of subsidiary companies of The Australian Estates Company Limited including Directors and Shareholders minutes, company registers and annual reports.

The deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, press statements, reports, staff records, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited and its officers. This includes records related to the Australian sugar industry and CSR’s operations in Australia in addition to the international sugar industry and CSR’s operations in Fiji and dealings with Japan and China. This deposit also includes records relating to Australian Estates Co Ltd.

Records of the company, and its predecessors, held in this deposit include letter books; Wool Department records; reports; Pastoral Department records including minutes, budget, reports and maps 1919-1949; station annual reports; pastoral and sugar accounts; ledger cards, journal sheets and cash books. Records of the following subsidiary companies are held in this deposit and consist of financial records, working papers, wages book, native wages books, maintenance and child endowment records 1961-1968: Estates Buildings Pty Ltd; Barkley Transport Co; Eva Downs Pastoral Co; Walhallow Pastoral Co; Meredith Menzies and Co (Milllungra station); Creswell Downs Pastoral Co; a time book of the Seaforth (sugar) Estate; and photographs of stud sheep are also included.

The deposit consists of financial papers and reports held at the company's Head Office in London; annual accounts, financial statements and reports from the Australian Head Office (Melbourne) and branch offices, as well as accounts and reports from stations. Additional material relating to subsidiary companies is also included. The station annual reports show the state of station accounts, shearing and lambing returns, land and stock statements, and reports from station managers and inspectors. The deposit also contains Head Office (London) ledgers, cash books and journals, as well as a cash book of the Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd 1900-1908.

This deposit consists of records from the Brisbane and Townsville Offices of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance (AML&F) Company Limited and records from The Australian Estates Co Ltd Brisbane Office relating to Warrong Station. The AML&F Brisbane Office records include general office ledgers 1908-1940, a cheque register 1952-1955, and from the Wool and Produce Department, general ledgers 1925-1940, Individual Ledgers 1920-1940 and cash books 1931-1941. The Townsville Office collection comprises general ledgers 1924-1938 and a securities register 1920-1941. Records relating to Warrong Station consist of Journals 1917-1929, ledgers 1917-1929 and statements of cheques drawn, correspondence and invoices 1925-1929.

The deposit consists of station accounts and annual reports (for the following stations: Boolcarrol; Brookong; Cambridge Downs; Currango; Elderslie; Kilcummin; Manuka; Mount Margaret; Normanby; The Overflow; Panjee; Piangobla; Springfield;Thackaringa; Tiltagara; Tindarey; and Wambrook).
The station papers for Boolcarrol; Brookong; Kilcummin; Manuka; Normanby; Piangobla; and Thackaringa stations are a miscellaneous collection of letters, memos and notes, often including statistical comparisons between various stations, or between various years on the one station. Includes photographs and a map of "Terrick Terrick" station and extracts from "The Central Queensland Herald" re Blackall Centenary 1946. The material in this deposit was held at the Australian Head Office in Melbourne.

Microfilm copy of station annual reports, shearing and lambing returns, land and stock statements. The material in this deposit was held at the Australian Head Office in Melbourne.

Microfilm copy of records held by the company in Melbourne:

1. Reports and accounts 1895: comparative results of sugar estates operations, 1894 - 1895
2. Valuation of freehold and leasehold properties 1909: class V sugar estates, pp. 55-61
3. Mackay Estates annual reports 1901 - 1912
4. Kalamia Estate annual reports 1903 - 1912

Melbourne. Published by the Australian Estates Company Limited. To Nov 1937 as the Australian Estates Staff Magazine. To Dec 1952 as Staff Journal of the Australian Estates Co Ltd. To Dec 1957 as Australian Estates Co Ltd Staff Journal. Publication ceased after Nov 1937 to Oct 1950