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- 1890 - 1986 (Creation)
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Ian George Hudson is a member of the family of timber merchants descending from William Hudson who established a timber business first in New Zealand and later in Australia. The family carried on timber businesses in Redfern and Glebe known as Hudson Bros, and later, George Hudson Pty Ltd. Ian Hudson's father, Alfred, established a timber merchants and building suppliers in Ashfield in 1927 known as A Hudson & Sons. Ian Hudson himself set up a timber company in Parramatta Road Leichhardt, in 1936, which operated as A Hudson Pty Ltd with a chain of nine retails stores and two wholesale businesses. In 1982 Hudson retired and his son, Roger, became Director of the A Hudson group of companies. In 1986 Hudson produced a history of the timber industry, Gift of God - friend of man: a story of the timber industry in NSW, 1788-1986, written with Paul Henningham.
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Correspondence, research files, printed material and photographs relating to Ian Hudson's research on the history of the timber industry in NSW. The research files hold information on a number of NSW timber companies and industry organisations, such as Allen Taylor & Co, Clyde Sawmilling Co Pty Ltd, Amalgamated Timbers Pty Ltd and the Associated Country Sawmillers of NSW. They also include notes on and/or transcripts of interviews with a number of people involved in the industry, including Tom and Robert Kirk, Stanley W Gentle, C A Lembke, Harry Luke and Leslie Hobbs.
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Entered from deposit description on 19 September 2011