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.

This deposit consists of photographic proofs arranged in 75 albums illustrating all types of company activities, personnel, social and sporting events, refineries and factories, Mount Newman opening, bulk sugar terminals, aerial views of mills and refineries, demolition of buildings; artwork used in publications and advertisements; mining operations and collieries; Fiji 1968-69; rail transport; research laboratories; Australian Estates; and copies of historical photos.

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.

The deposit consists of board papers, reports, correspondence, legal documents, plans and drawings, reports from the Pilbara Iron Technical Group Office, printed material, agreements and deeds, and records re employee housing scheme.

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.

North Sydney. Published by the Readymix Group CSR Limited. Incorporates Hume News which was last published in Vol 66 no 4 Sep 1989 (S69)

Sydney. Produced by CSR Limited

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.

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.

This deposit consists of photographic negatives from the CSR Limited Publicity Department illustrating staff Christmas party; personnel; staff cricket match; CSR products; Pyrmont Refinery social events; buildings and equipment; publications; artwork; copies of old pictures and maps.

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

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.

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.

These records were created during the operation of the Goondi Mill from its commencement in 1884 to its closure in 1987. The deposit consists of general letters received 1890-1962, and sent to Head Office 1884-1963; staff and private letters received from Head Office 1890-1963, and sent by Goondi to Head Office 1891-1960; clippings of Technical Field correspondence sent by Head Office to Goondi 1936-1965, copies of Technical Field letters sent to Head Office 1932-1968; copies of cane variety trial reports 1939-1955; engineering notes 1885-1966; chemical inspection notes 1925-1964; manufacture inspection notes 1913-1940; Mill Inspectors notes 1901-1965; correspondence with the Water Quality Council of Queensland; tables showing crop yields 1898-1972; farm production register and farm ownership registers 1931-1987; miscellaneous records re employment of Kanaka labour, World War II war service land settlement scheme; photographs of the mill and staff.

Records from the Sugar Division and Building Material Division of CSR Limited. Sugar Division Industrial Department records consist of labour register 1884-1950; hours, work and wages returns for Australian refineries 1882-1984; Industrial court transcripts, judgements and other records relating to agreements and awards; Mills Group correspondence; Australian Mills Housing Survey 1968-1971; meteorological records 1882-1969; plans. Building Materials Division records consist of Gypsum Products Group minutes 1962-1975 and annual accounts 1950-1974.

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.

The deposit consists of Cane Inspector reports and returns, correspondence and a record of sugar cane farmers working for CSR 1905-1906.

Operational files and reports, training files, equipment registers, shift engineers log books, technical reports, CSR property plans, publications, photographs of buildings and personnel, film (8mm) and negatives.

Videocassette (U-matic) re CSR Coal Division, graduate recruitment, company activities, Delhi safety, performance and prospects, copy of The Rush that Never Ended (1981). Videocassette (VHS) re Hunter Valley Coal Chain and Lemington Mine, Lemington Mine safety presentation. Film reel (16 mm) re company activities, corporate TV press releases, Coal Australia, and Fiji Harvest. Includes film reel (35 mm) of The Rush that Never Ended (1981), produced by Terence McMahon.

Aperture cards, maps and plans of CSR properties and machinery. Includes plan indexes for Pyrmont Refinery. All maps and plans are catalogued using CSR Limited's original cataloguing numbers.

34 plans of CSR buildings, processing plants, vehicles and vehicle parts.

Refinery Managers' conference papers, production data sheets and reports.

The deposit from Goondi Mill (Queensland) consists of letter books 1892-1920; engineers reports and notes 1890-1941; union claims and labour matters 1939-40; Royal Commission on Sugar questionnaire 1942.

Includes general reports on cane from Australian and Fijian mills, reports on technical fieldwork in Australian mills, David North Plant Research Centre records, weather observations from Macknade and Victoria mills and Technical Field Department steering committee minutes.

This deposit contains files, transparencies, negatives, glass plates and prints.

The deposit consists of records relating to the sale of New South Wales Mills: executive memos and reports, correspondence, legal documents re Condong Mill litigation case 1981-1982, security documents, sale agreements, staff and wages records, Sugar Division subject files, Mills Group files, feasibility studies, press releases, valuation reports, financial records, schedules of growers names for Broadwater, Condong and Harwood Mills; and plans of Harwood Mill 1922, 1971.

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.

Files relating to the 1974 long-term sugar contract with Japan.

This deposit consists of material related to CSR Limited including photographs, a file on 'Methods of work simplification'; and a 2005 calendar, 'Celebrating 150 years: 1855-2005.

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.