Microfilm copy of three volumes of a journal written by Sir Edward Parry during his residence in New South Wales as Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company: vol. 1, 23 Dec 1829 - 19 May 1831; vol. 2, 20 May 1831 - 18 Mar 1834; vol. 3, 19 Mar 1834 - 1 Nov 1834.
Microfilm copy of Sir Edward Parry's despatches to the Court of Directors, nos. 43-98 and secret no. 1, 1830-1833, and Parry's outwards correspondence to recipients in New South Wales, nos. 1-1107. Also includes a register of births and baptisms at Port Stephens 1827-1831.
Microfilm copy of letter book containing copies of letters sent by the Commissioner, Sir Edward Parry, to officers of the Australian Agricultural Company and others in the colony, 9 December 1829 to 8 March 1834, with index.
Microfilm copy of letter book containing drafts and copies of despatches sent by the Commissioner, Captain PP King, to the Court of Directors in London and to persons and officials in the colony, June 1839 to January 1840.
Annual reports, balance sheets and Directors' minutes of William McCulloch & Co Ltd (1877 - 1887) and the Australasian Carrying & Shipping Co Ltd (1886 - 1891).
Records prior to the formation of Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Includes papers relating to early partnership agreements and amalgamation, correspondence, catalogue, financial records, evaluations and memoranda, miscellaneous papers relating to the early history of Mort & Co.
This deposit consists of 59 reels of microfilm records for The Maitland Mercury 1843-1901; and 5 reels of microfilm records for The Maitland Weekly Mercury 1894-1900.
This is a copy of the original journal held by the Archives of the University of New England. It is attributed to William Telfer the younger describing life at Tamworth and surrounding districts. The journal was published in 1980 as the Wallabadah Manuscript: the early history of the Northern Districts of New South Wales. The author who compiled the introduction and notes is Roger Milliss.
Minute book. Includes the Sydney Stevedores’ Wool Dumping and Lighterage Association (Industrial Union of Employers) Rules adopted at a special general meeting held on 12 December 1902, pasted on the page after the minutes of that meeting.
Microfilm copy of the transcript of proceedings in the application of HV McKay for an order under the Excise and Tariff Act (Harvester Case) to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Principal Registry
Ledgers, journals, wool press books, stock records, store and ration accounts, letter books and correspondence. Also includes letter books and financial records of Gnalta Station and some material for Packsaddle Station.
Microfilm copy of the Melbourne Branch manager's reports on branch operations: May 1889 report to Manager, London; 1890-1902 reports to General Manager for Australia, Melbourne; 1903- July 1912 reports to Chief Inspector, Melbourne.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited
Collection of Queensland Survey Office maps showing the environs of Mackay, Clermont, Hughenden, Leichhardt District; and parts of Gregory, Burke and Mitchell Districts, County of Deas Thompson, County of Carlisle, County of Rawbelle and County of Murchison.
Despatches from London (1856-1916) and copies of despatches to London (1860-1916) with index (1978-1916); private letters from London (1910-1914); letterbook of confidential despatches (1876-1899); general letterbooks (1836-1838, 1850-1852); index prepared for Parry to correspondence concerning establishment and administration of Company before his arrival (1824-1829).
Microfilm copies of despatches and letters between the General Superintendent of the Company (and other persons in New South Wales) and the Directors of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company in London, including indexes to the despatches and letters.
Monthly town hotel ledgers [items 1-119], monthly country hotel ledgers [items 120-134] and monthly cordial ledgers [items 135-140]. Hotels are alphabetised by the last name of the owner/licensee. Contains only name of hotel, name of owner/licensee, location of hotel, and amounts of product ordered.
Microfilm copy of 'Sidelights on Two Referendums, 1916-1917' which comprises extracts from Henry Boote's letters to his brother, Will, mainly during the referendum years, 1916-1917, but dating from 1911 when Boote became leader and feature writer of the Australian Worker. Included, also, is an historical record of Mr Boote, pp. 88-94.
Copies of records relevant to the 1907 Harvester Judgement case heard in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration before Justice Higgins.
This deposit was transferred to the custody of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council in 2016.
Copies of a draft scheme of Federation by the Australasian Federation of Labour, submitted by the seventh Intercolonial Trades and Labour Congress to the Labor Councils and Labour Unions of Australasia 1891 and posters relating to Eight-Hour Day celebrations. Other records of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council including minutes, correspondence and records of Ballarat branches of trade unions now held by the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council.
Microfilm copy of minutes of the Sydney Branch 1852 - 1859, Melbourne Branch 1859 - 1872, Australasian and Commonwealth Councils of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, later known as the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
Index cards containing information about loan applications. Applications from 1877 to 1896 are unnumbered and applications 1451 - 1600 from 1909-1910 are not included.
County of Bourke Permanent Building and Investment Society
Minutes of general meetings of the United Operative Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Society of Victoria and minutes of general meetings and the Management Committee of the Victorian Branch of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia.
United Operative Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Society of Victoria
Daily newspapers, occasional bulletins, and broadsheets published in London during the General Strike in Great Britain. Includes minute records and catalogue card.
These are microfilm copies of general ledgers, 'B' ledgers and ledgers of 'Companies Own Properties' from Goldsbrough Mort and Company's Melbourne office.
Minutes, staff records, business notes and instruction book, wages book, register of members and directors, register of mortgages and financial records, newspapers containing advertisements
Minutes of general, special and committee meetings, members contribution books and financial records. Also includes members contribution to the Corporation Employees' Association and Benefit Society (1913-1919).
Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia
All types of company records including despatches, correspondence, indexes; New South Wales ledgers of the Australian Agricultural Company; ledgers of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company for Moorlands, Avon Downs, Mount Alfred and Mount Margaret properties.
Minute book containing minutes of meetings re. formation of the Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, 1924, 1926 and minutes of Branch Committee, Special and General meetings, 1926-1929 (including ); Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia membership register (?members resident in Esperance), 1907-1909; Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia cash book (?members resident in Esperance), 1909-1910. The Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia was formed on 3 March 1926.
Official Bulletin issued by the strike committee, Brisbane, 1912, report of the All Australian Trade Union Congress, February 1930, The Worker, 1908, 1910, 1922, 1929.
AML&F Co Ltd Sydney Office individual ledgers consisting of station accounts and special clients accounts, with index. Ledgers 18-1 (A-D 1916 - 1917) and 19-1 (A-D, 1917 - 1918) were not received from the company.
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited
A copy of a typed manuscript of Hannett's A Diary from Russia, 1929, together with photographs, credentials and related correspondence of the Executive of the Red International of Labour Unions to the Labour Council of NSW. The material was collated by Graham Stutchbury and is introduced by him.
Microfilm copy of financial records, cash books, certificates issued, brewing manual, stock and order books. Includes ledgers of Allt's Brewery and Wine and Spirit Company (1888 - 1895), Resch's Waverley Brewery and Resch's Ltd.
Microfilm copy of Resch's Ltd minutes of board meetings, cellar list books, brewing books, property (hotels) register and financial records of Wilcannia Lion Brewery.
The journal dates from 2 June 1924 when the property of Gunnible was acquired by RA Staughton from Thomas and Percival Willsallen and ends on 30 June 1930.
Minute books of the branch meetings, committees and conferences. Includes records of predecessors the Victorian Grocers Employees' Association and the United Grocers, Tea and Dairy Produce Employees' Union of Victoria.
Shop Assistants' and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia
A small collection of papers relating to Paul and Gray Limited (1902-1930), Tooth and Company prospectus (1888) and Orient-Royal Mail Line timetable and map (1907-1908).
This collection has only one item: The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International Year-book 1931, published by the Secretariat of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, Vienna. The Amalgamated Post Workers' Union of Australia was affiliated with the international body.
This is a copy of an MA thesis on the history of the Australian Agricultural Company written in 1933, and covering the company’s history from 1824 to 1932.
Presscopy letterbooks, correspondence, legal agreements, and financial records of JC Young and Company, Paterson, Ray, Palmer and Company, Paterson, Laing and Company, and Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited.
Agreements, minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records, shipping documents, map (Great Northern Railway), and plan of works of the Australian Coking Company
Minutes of the Woonona Lodge (1889-1894) and financial records (1885-1893) of the Illawarra Coal Miners' Protective Association, and minutes, letter books, financial records, and membership records of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association and the Amalgamated Miners' Association, Illawarra Branch. Minutes of the Balmain Sinkers' Association (1904-1907) and the United Order of Druids - Woonoona Lodge (1892 -1908), and material identified as Australian Labour Federation, Illawarra District Council and from 1916, Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Includes printed material from 1890 to 1954.
Illawarra Coal Miners' Mutual Protective Association
Minute Book of the Factory Employees Union of Australasia December 1909 - December 1910; also containing letters and notices of meetings, ballot count for election of officers January 1908 (pp 114), newspaper cuttings and photographs of Alf Carter, General Secretary (pp 111-113), pamphlet and postcard.
Secretary's Report for First Annual General Meeting of the Kensington Women's Branch, United Australia Party; press cuttings mainly concerning the Women's Loyalty League of NSW; photograph of an unidentified group.
Microfilm of the Minute Book of the Factory Employees' Union of Australasia containing records of the Union from Dec 1909 until Jan 1911, general notices to members, newspaper cuttings, together with photographs and obituary notices referring to the General Secretary, Alfred Walter Carter.