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The Reporter

  • AU NBAC S1196
  • Serial
  • 21 Jan 1983 - 10 Nov 1995

Contains issues from 21 Jan 1983 - 17 May 1985 (gaps), and 24 March 1995 - 10 Nov 1995 (gaps).

Papua New Guinea University of Technology

CSR Limited microfilm deposit 1

  • AU NBAC M85
  • Deposit
  • 1653; 1804 - 1974

Section A Reels 1-18 consist of microfilm copies of CSR Sydney Library Archive Section files (originals in NBAC N305) containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry, immigration and labour.

Section B Reels 1-2 are closed.

Section C Reels 1-19 are microfilm copies of Raw Sugar Marketing Division documents relating to the International Sugar Council, international sugar matters and charter parties.

Section D Reel 1 consists of microfilm copies of Drug Master File 1324 containing information lodged with the Food and Drug Administration by CSR plus a microfilm reader index.

Section E Reels 1-737 consist of microfilm copies of Head Office correspondence exchanged between branches, mills and officers. These reels continue the various Head Office correspondence series found within deposit 142 and on occasion into the early 1970s some correspondence begin with the microfilm series.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

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

CSR Limited Archives deposit 2

  • AU NBAC N306
  • Deposit
  • 1880s - 1980s

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.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited Publicity Department deposit 1

  • AU NBAC Z364
  • Deposit
  • 1860 - 1984

The deposit consists of 634 photographic prints from the CSR Limited Publicity Department illustrating industry exhibitions re Royal Agricultural Society show Sydney and others; farming and harvesting; refineries and mills; company division buildings; research laboratories Pyrmont; shipping transport; personnel including portraits of E W Knox, Thomas Alison Scott, Gustav Kottman; plant and equipment; plants and equipment in Hawaii, Fiji, West Indies, India, USA and Canada; advertising; alcohol distilleries; manufacture of pyneboard, plasterboard/gypsum, cement and other building materials.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited Head Office photographs

  • AU NBAC 171
  • Deposit
  • circa 1878 - 1960

A collection of photographs previously kept at the Technical Library of CSR Limited in Sydney re company office buildings in Sydney and Brisbane; annual staff sporting events 1948, 1951-52; cane cultivation and experimental work, sugar milling in Australia and Fiji; hurricane and flood damage; beef cattle property at Yaqara, Fiji; refineries in Australia and New Zealand; distillery operations producing industrial alcohol, methylated spirits, molasses, carbon dioxide; views of early stages of the Building Materials Division, the Activated Carbon plant at Pyrmont and pineapple production in Fiji

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited Technical Field Department deposit

  • AU NBAC Z395
  • Deposit
  • 1899 - 1979

The deposit consists of correspondence, nursery reports, memos and working files of CSR - Technical Field Department 1899-1979; correspondence, photographs and slides collected by George Babar (Chief Technical Officer) 1938-1960, including photographs and slides of Lautoka, Nausori and Penang Mills in Fiji.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited deposit 1

  • AU NBAC Z109
  • Deposit
  • 1851 - 1994

The deposit consists of patent files, records and photographs re refineries and mills, reports re Royal Commissions and Inquiries into the Sugar Industry, specifications, sketch books and engineering notes, correspondence, sales and deliveries books for refinery products, Fiji export marketing files c.1941-1977, records re Denning Arbitration hearings 1969, Fiji publications and press releases, deed of settlement, memorandum and articles of association, financial and legal records, annual reports, sugar market reports, press copy letter books, files of Chief Chemist CSR, files associated with the acquisition of Australian Estates Co Ltd, ledgers, engineers data books, Pyrmont Refinery records including employees register c.1854-1936 and property matters, staff books and register, miscellaneous documents papers and historical documents of E W Knox's period as general manager. Also includes publications received from CSR Sydney Head Office library after its closure in May 1987, records of sugar marketing division relating to International Sugar Agreement and Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, Fiji Sugar Inquiry Commission 1961, Royal Commission on Sugar Industry (Qld) reports, overseas reports 1921-1969, awards.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

H E Holland collection

  • AU NBAC P5
  • Deposit
  • 1880 - 1937

Material used by Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2004) in the writing of a biography on H E Holland. Includes correspondence, family papers and photograph; writings and lecture notes; papers re Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu; press cuttings re his speeches in New Zealand; large collection of pamphlets including material on NZ and the Pacific Islands.

Holland, Henry Edmund

CSR Limited Publicity Department deposit 2

  • AU NBAC Z636
  • Deposit
  • 1860 - 1984

This deposit consists of 418 photograph and lithograph negatives from the CSR Limited Publicity Department illustrating industry exhibitions re Royal Agricultural Society show Sydney and others; farming and harvesting; raw sugar refineries and mills; company division buildings; distilleries; shipping transport; pineapple cannery, Lautoka Fiji; Chelsea refinery, New Zealand; personnel; artwork; and maps of cane growing areas.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific deposit

  • AU NBAC H17
  • Deposit
  • 1989 - 1992

Executive Committee correspondence, subject files and papers relating to the first four International Conferences on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific

Burns Philp and Company (Sydney Office and Branches) deposit

  • AU NBAC N115
  • Deposit
  • 1879 - 1983; 1844

All types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, share registers, shipping records, staff records, photographs, maps and plans, printed material and newspaper collection (1844 - 1977). Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

Burns Philp and Company Head Office deposit

  • AU NBAC N145
  • Deposit
  • 1883 - 1983

All types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, share records, shipping records, staff record cards and photographs. Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

Burns Philp and Company holding deposit

  • AU NBAC Z385
  • Deposit
  • 1883 - 1996

All types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, staff records, investment registers, branch returns, subject files, strategic plans, photographs, plans, videotapes and audiotapes of interviews with company executives. Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries and associated companies such as Mauri Brothers and Thomson. This deposit includes many cartons which are not yet processed and listed.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

Michael Easson collection

  • AU NBAC Z514
  • Deposit
  • 1973 - 1994

Correspondence, photographs, personal files, printed material and subject files re labour movement collected during university career, pacific interests, Trotskyism, and subsequent employment including the Labor Council of NSW, the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, EPAC, TUTA, etc.

Easson, Michael Bernard

Commonwealth Trade Union Council deposit

  • AU NBAC N379
  • Deposit
  • 1986 - 1997

London correspondence and meeting files; conference papers; correspondence with associated organisations; country files for Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu and Western Samoa; course files for regional workshops, Kiribati, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and miscellaneous files including Clyde Cameron College course material.

Commonwealth Trade Union Council

Family Planning Federation of Australia deposit

  • AU NBAC H4
  • Deposit
  • 1968 - 1992

Minutes of Federal Council (1972-1987) and sub-committees, annual reports, financial records, files of Executive Director Wendy McCarthy, office and research files, posters, educational videos and printed material. Includes material relating to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) education programs, videotapes on family planning and sexually-transmitted diseases targeted at Pacific Island cultures, and video recordings of Pacific women.

Family Planning Federation of Australia

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA) deposit

  • AU NBAC N346
  • Deposit
  • 1981 - 2010

Reports to the Board, files about the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, AusAID Australian-NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) projects, education and training programs and fundraising, personnel files, files for projects in Africa, the Middle East, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines and the South Pacific, scholarships, support committees files, travel itineraries, and correspondence with trade unions. Includes records of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela's visit to Australia. Items labelled Jill's Files are files kept by Jill Gutteridge, APHEDA Project Officer/Overseas Program Manager. Includes African National Congress (ANC) Support Committee Archives, items 396-471; Australia-Kampuchea Support Committee Archives (AKSCA) also known as Australia-Cambodia Support Committee (ACSC), items 472-506.

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad

British New Guinea Development Company deposit 1

  • AU NBAC M37
  • Deposit
  • 1910 - 1948

Prospectus (1910), memorandum and articles of association (1922), notices of meetings (1910 - 1942), Directors' reports and accounts (1910 - 1948), General Manager's reports (1914 - 1918) and reprints from the Financial Times and Investor's Chronicle (1911 - 1939).

British New Guinea Development Company Limited

CSR Limited deposit 5

  • AU NBAC Z598
  • Deposit
  • 1925 - 1992

CSR Limited Raw Sugar Marketing Division financial records, sugar industry circulars and inquiries, statistical records, marketing and general records concerning sugar production in Australia and Fiji. Historical files in this deposit include Miss Hollingworth's memoirs 1974, Industry Assistance Commission (IAC) reports and agreements, CSR and Queensland Government Contract, Cane Prices Board history, and the international sugar industry.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Walter Freeman collection

  • AU NBAC N295
  • Deposit
  • 1893 - 1956

Publications relating to employment by CSR, agriculture and the sugar industry, and Indian residents in Fiji. Includes language publications and historical publications.

Freeman, Walter Frank Harcourt

Brigadier General Evan Wisdom records

  • AU NBAC P66
  • Deposit
  • 1914 - 1937

Correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and printed material about the mandated Territory of New Guinea.

Wisdom, Evan Alexander

H I Jensen collection

  • AU NBAC P29
  • Deposit
  • 1957 - 1959

This is a xeroxed copy of Jensen's manuscript, Reminiscences of a Geologist, written about 1957. The original was kept in Dr Jensen's possession.

Jensen, Harald Ingemann

C H Campbell collection

  • AU NBAC P81
  • Deposit
  • 1944 - 1947

Correspondence and press cuttings related to Campbell's positions as an official in the Australia-India Association (1944 - 46), as Indonesian Trade Commissioner in Australia (1946 - 47), and his interests in the Indonesian independence movement. Also includes correspondence and printed material re conditions of Papuan seamen, operation of his companies, and photographs.

Campbell, Clarence Hart

CSR Limited Archives deposit 1

  • AU NBAC N305
  • Deposit
  • 1791 - 1986

The deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, bibliographies and papers re Knox family, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry. Also includes records relating to the Fiji sugar industry, pineapple activities in Fiji and Fiji tramways.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Herbert William Burkitt Collection

  • AU NBAC N315
  • Deposit
  • 1957 - 1958

Slides and film of Mackay Bulk Sugar Terminals, flood at Mackay, and bulk sugar terminals in Hawaii.

Burkitt, Herbert William

Ross Martin collection

  • AU NBAC Z556
  • Deposit
  • 1910 - 1973

Newspaper cuttings (organised by subject), Research paper re Papua New Guinea and New Zealand including pamphlets, circulars, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, course notes, manuscripts and published material.

Martin, Ross Murdoch

Edwin Roy Barker Collection

  • AU NBAC P116
  • Deposit
  • 1950s

Samples of share certificates, receipts and correspondence of gold, silver and copper mining companies in Australia, New Guinea and South East Asia. Most of these records are in the names of Edwin George Barker, Edwin Roy Barker or John Charles Dunn.

Barker, Edwin Roy

CSR Limited Publicity Department deposit 4

  • AU NBAC Z695
  • Deposit
  • 1860 - 1984

This deposit consists of 170 glass negatives from the CSR Limited Publicity Department illustrating the company's refineries and mills in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand; shipping and transport; cane research stations; distilleries; farming equipment and planting; Fiji pineapples; and buildings.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

H E Holland Collection microfilm deposit 1

  • AU NBAC M62
  • Deposit
  • c. 1880 - c. 1937

This is a microfilm copy of part of the H E Holland collection NBAC P5, made for the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand. The items copied are manuscript material listed in Patrick O'Farrell's biography, 'Harry Holland: The militant socialist' on page 222 plus annotated pamphlets held in the collection.

Holland, Henry Edmund

Ken Buckley papers

  • AU NBAC N260
  • Deposit
  • 1970s

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

Buckley, Kenneth Donald

CSR Limited microfilm deposit 2

  • AU NBAC M90
  • Deposit
  • 1880 - 1947

Microfilm copies of presscopy letterbooks containing correspondence between CSR Head Office and Fiji. Includes correspondence with Fiji Colonial Secretary, Rarawai Mill, and about immigration of Indian labour.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited