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AU NBAC N78 · Deposit · 1909 - 1986

Photographs, certificates and other display items from the NSW Branch's Board Room in the Sydney Trades Hall on the retirement of J A Weir as Secretary in March 1986. Includes one photograph of Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employees' Union 1909.

Australian Timber Workers' Union

Later caption on verso, by unknown author reads 'Co-operative Box Sept. 1918- Chiswick Pt. Over 200 men were employed here.' Other sources indicate the new factory at Chiswick opened in 1922, the likely date for this photograph. Mill Foreman, Alfred Farrell (1865-1925) is standing six from left (with hat). James Hinchcliffe Farrell (1903-1987), Sawyer, is seated on ground, eight from right.