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1 Robert S. Richards: Summary record available.

2 Papers relating to pastoral lands

Summary

PRG 560/67 Report entitled ‘Far West and Far North West Interior South Australian Pastoral Board Inspection, 19th June – 19th July 1967’ by J. Vickery along with maps and notes and a series of photographs titled ‘Scenes from Northern Pastoral Areas of South Australia’. Also includes hand-written notes and a printed item titled ‘Pastoral Lands to be leased under the provisions of the Pastoral Act, 1936–1960’.

Name: Lothian, Noel, 1915–

Quantity: 2 cm

Subject: land use; rural South Australia northern region; pastures South Australia northern region; South Australian Pastoral Board.

3 Kangaroo Island, County Carnarvon. Plan shewing pastoral blo[?cks]

4 Greenwood family: Summary record

5 Thomas Cleve Stott: Summary record

6 Edmund Albert Brooks: Summary record

Farm journals of Henry Pitcher

D3192(L) Farm journals kept by Henry Pitcher at Dry Creek, 1869–1872, and at Maitland, 1873–1912. 3 volumes, handwritten

Subject: agriculture; South Australia; Dry Creek history; Maitland history.
History of agriculture in South Australia (research paper)

Summary

D7473(T) Typescript copy of a research paper on the history of agriculture in South Australia (by Edward Giles, c.1870). The paper looks at early successes in growing wheat, its harvesting, beneficial effects on self sufficiency for the colony and bread prices. It also looks at stock raising and common practices when first establishing an agricultural property.

Subject: agriculture; South Australia history

SRG 78 Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Minutes of Committee and General Meetings. From 1850– with some year gaps.

SRG 112 South Australian Chamber of Manufactures.

These holdings include: minutes, 112/1, 1869–1894, 1918–1972; indexes to minutes, 112/2; letterbooks, 112/3, 1912–1918; histories of the Chamber, 112/15, c.1947, 1956–1958 by H.E. Winterbottom and draft by J. Martindale; correspondence, 112/16, 1884 [appears to be ‘lost’], 1929–1930; newspaper cuttings, 112/17, 1879–1896 (1 vol., alpha index at start of volume).

Note: In addition, records of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and of Manufactures, instrumental in developing primary (and other) South Australian industries – including tariff and labour award issues – are also held by the State Library under recent deposits
SRG 188 Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of South Australia. 1856–1995. 4 m.

1 Papers Relating to Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of South Australia 1996

2 Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of South Australia: Summary record 1995

Records of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society comprising minute books of the Committee and various sub-committees, proceedings and reports (printed), illuminated address to the Duke of Edinburgh, lithographic print of Exhibition building, photographs, newspaper cuttings album, wine show material, minute books of the committee and sub-committees, proceedings and reports (printed), copy of illuminated address to the Duke of Edinburgh, lithographic print of exhibition buildings, photographs, album of newspaper cuttings, judging records of RAHS. Adelaide Wine Show, secretary’s correspondence, plan of showgrounds 1944 and letterheads.

Subject: Wine and wine making South Australia.

Note: The RAHS maintains its own archives and this collection needs to be examined separately.

PRG 560/39 Papers relating to the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia. Mixed publications, realia, newspaper cuttings, handwritten and typescript. (Noel Lothian, 1915–).
SRG 207 United Farmers and Graziers of South Australia Incorporated, 1966–1979. 9 m.

Records of United Farmers and Graziers of South Australia Inc. comprising minutes, reports, press releases, zone files and branch files.

Subject: Agriculture Economic aspects South Australia; Farmers South Australia.
SRG 235 Records of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Torrens Valley Branch comprising minutes. 1 volume. 1948–1958.
SRG 503 Little Brothers' and Barwell Boys' Association 1923–1988. 2 cm. Papers collected by the Little Brothers' and Barwell Boys' Association.

Subject: Little Brothers' and Barwell Boys' Association; Barwell Boys; Little Brothers; British South Australia; Migrant agricultural laborers South Australia; Immigrants South Australia; South Australia Emigration and immigration.

State Records of NSW (Western Sydney Records Centre)

3249 William Farrer (1845–1906). Papers, February 1885–May 1906. 45 cm.

Correspondence with agricultural scientists and wheat growers in Australia and overseas. The papers comprise letters received by Farrer from Henry Vilmorin, a French grain merchant and experimentalist; M.A. Carleton and B.T. Galloway of the US Department of Agriculture; Professor A.E. Blount of the State Agricultural College, Colorado; C.E. Saunders of the Canadian Department of Agriculture; and typed copies of letters sent by Farrer to B.T. Galloway and M.A. Carleton, together with other minor papers.

OTHER ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS

State Library of NSW

ANZAAS (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science; founded 1888).

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscript Collection, State Library of NSW. ML MSS 988

Records held for the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888–1930) and ANZAAS (1930–1961). 3-page detailed list available.

National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection

NLA MS 9173

ANZAAS records 1959–93. 3 boxes (0.36 m). Includes records relating to ANZAAS congresses, executive and management committees, membership, journals, awards, administration and ANZAAS State Divisions.
NLA MS 7424 (Restricted. Not for loan.)

Charles Robert (Bert) Kelly (1912–1997), Diaries, 1959–82 [manuscript] 1959–82. 28 cm (2 boxes). Kelly was the Liberal MP for Wakefield (SA) for 1958–77. He was Minister for Works (1967) and Minister for the Navy (1968–69) and for much of his time in politics he kept a diary. He wrote a weekly newspaper column using the pseudonym the ‘Modest Member’ and after his retirement the ‘Modest Farmer’.

Summary: Photocopy of eight typescript diaries. Box 1: vol. 1 1959–60, vol. 2 1961, vol. 3 1962–69, vol 4 1970–72; Box 2: vol. 5 1973–74, vol. 6 1975–76, vol. 7 1977–79, vol. 8 1980–82. Also includes notes about speeches and questions in Parliament re tariffs, covering the years 1962–1977.
University of Melbourne Archives

Reference no.: 89/142

ANZAAS records includes material regarding the ANZAAS Congress 1977; correspondence for 1975–1978; papers presented; programs; guest list.

Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) list of holdings as at December 1993 is described in 41 pp. The selections below of business and personal records and papers are taken from the on-line catalogue (). Their detail is not known. Descriptive series lists are only available at the NBAC. But they probably would have high relevance to a South Australian history depending on the direction and focus it takes and the degree of its connections to South Australian agricultural history. For example, wool shearer union members; national concerns of large pastoral and land auction companies, etc.
Australian Dairy Products Federation (1978)

Z318 1946–1981 4.35 Minutes of Committees and constituent bodies.

Australian Farmers Federation (1969–1979)

See NFF N18 and Norquay, Z135.

Australian Primary Producers Union (1944–1969)

See NFF N18 and Norquay Z135

Australian Timber Industry Stabilisation Conference (c.1928) and predecessors

Z347 1959–1987 0.60 m of minutes, conference papers, correspondence and subject files, membership lists, draft history of predecessor body and finance papers.

Australian Timber Workers Union (1907–1991) includes predecessors

T34 Victorian Branch 1907–1921 Rules, conference report & photographs.

Z120 South Australian Branch 1912–1983 Minutes, correspondence, rules, industrial records & journals.

Z138 NSW Branch 1910–1990 All types of union records including radio broadcast transcripts (J. Weir).

Z168 Federal Office 1923–1984 Minutes, files, financial and industrial records and publications. Includes records of Victorian Branch.

Z406 NSW – Pit Prop Cutters Section c1937–85 Minutes, files, transcripts, diaries, membership, accounts & publications.

Z526 Tasmanian Branch 1911–1952 Minutes, membership and accounts records, rules & press cuttings.
Australian Vegetable Growers Federation (1945).

See NFF N18 & Norquay Z135

Australian Wheatgrowers Federation (1931) (Grains Council of Australia from 1986)

Z83 See National Farmers Federation 1931–1981 – Minutes, committee records and conference papers, file series by subject for administration and finance and files of the Economic Research Unit.

Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation (1939–1980) includes predecessors

Z266 (pt) See Wool Council of Australia 1945–1980 Minutes, office files, circulars and financial records.

Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962–1980)

Z266 (pt) See Wool Council of Australia 1962–1979 Minutes and meetings papers, papers of industry committees, subject files, press cuttings, publications and papers of the International Wool Secretariat.

Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council (1960–1979) includes predecessor bodies

E246 E266 N124 1929–1979 Minutes, correspondence and office files, circulars, reports and publications. Includes records of the Australian Woolgrowers Council, Pastoralists Federal Council and Graziers Federal Council.

CSIRO Officers Association (1943–1992) includes former titles

Z417 ACT Branch 1943–1991 Minutes of Branch and Council, annual reports and bulletin.

N43 Equal Pay Committee 1948–1971 Office files, rough minutes, press cuttings, TV program transcripts.
Milk and Ice Carters and Dairymens Employees Union of NSW (1903–1971)

T25 1903–1959 0.90 Minutes, arbitration and membership records.

Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd Head Office 1853–1965, pastoral brokers, agents

All types of company and station records.

98 Adelaide Office 1914–1963 Minutes, correspondence and financial records, also Bagot, Shakes & Lewis Ltd records.

88 London Office 1893–1948 Minutes, correspondence and financial records.

106 Perth Office 1928–1963 Financial records.

105 N106 Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd, Head Office, Adelaide 1963–1973

Correspondence, annual reports and printed material.

130 Perth Office 19571968 Company publications.

N108 Melbourne Office 1963–1979 Press cuttings, publications & photographs.
National Farmers Federation (1979) includes predecessors and some constituents

N18, N143, Z551 (see also Z135)

Minutes, correspondence & subject file series, conference papers and publications. Includes records of Australian Primary Producers Union, Primary Producers Council of Aust., National Farmers Union (1943–1969) & Aust. Farmers Federation. Constituents records are of the Australian Vegetable Growers, Wheatgrowers and Seed Producers. 1943–1992, 1979–1991, c.1904–1978
NSW Farmers Association includes former titles, predecessors and associated bodies, 1890–1988

E256 P51, P104 P123, P125 N92, N123 Z453

Minutes, correspondence and classified subject file series, membership & industrial records, press cuttings, circulars and publications. Includes records of advisory & specialist committees of the Association & records of the Sheepmeats Marketing Board, UFWA, United Farmers Co-op Ltd, NSW Pig Producers Council, NSW Shearing Industry Committee and the Wool Producing Industry Trade Committee.
Sheepmeat Council of Australia (1979)

Z325 (1975–1991) Subject files

United Trades & Labour Council of South Australia (1884)

M15 Microfilm copies of minutes, 1884–1952

Wool Council of Australia (1979) includes predecessors

Z266 Office files and related records for the WCA & predecessors, the Australian Wool Industry Conference and the Australian Wool & Meat Producers Association, 1964–1991.

Wool Selling Brokers Officers Association of Australia (see Goldsbrough Mort deposit 2A)

Woolclassers Association of Australia (1933)

Federal Office and NSW Branch 1910–1983

All types of union records for the Federal Office and NSW, & minutes of the Tasmanian Branch.

Australian Agricultural Company Ltd, pastoral and coal mining

Australian Office 1824–1989, *closed post 1940

All types of company records including Ivanhoe Grazing Co., James McLeish Estates Ltd, Connor, Doherty & Durack Pty Ltd and Darks Ice & Cold Storage Ltd.

London Office 1824–1974 *closed post 1940

All types of company records including AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd and Union Pastoral Investments Ltd.
Personal records

Wilson, W.E.R., Thesis on the history of the Australian Agricultural Company.

Troy, Pat, Papers relating to the SA Land Commission, WA and NSW Urban Land Councils, Victorian Land Council and Australian Housing Corporation, 1968–1979; survey documents, press cuttings and printed material relating to various projects of the Urban Research Unit, ANU.
Manning, G.A., Research papers on the merger of Elder Smith and Goldsbrough Mort & Co.
Barnard, Alan, Research papers incl. material on the history of Goldsbrough Mort & Co and ANU Wool Seminar papers, 1957–59.
Lake Victoria Station, SA Pastoral diaries, financial records, correspondence, stores and day books & returns, 1881–1910.

State Records of South Australia

Some of the relevant examples only: e.g., see Education Department and Colonial/Chief Secretary’s Office files for additional information.
Finnis, H.J., ‘The Formation of the Women’s Agricultural Bureau’, an address given at the Jubilee Celebrations arranged by Central District Branches, 19 April 1967 (‘SA Archives’).

Agent-General for SA

GRG 55

Includes details on trading arrangements, promotional activities etc for agricultural produce

Agricultural Bureau (see also PIRSA entries)

GRG 35/1/1888/174 and 1889/2942: files on the establishment of the original Agricultural Bureau. Minutes of Branches of the Bureau for 1903–1974 are in GRG 10/57. 46 vols.

Agricultural College Department

GRG 61

Records include correspondence; farm day books; agronomy experiments; records of plot and field work; inventories (1893, 1905, 1911–13); laboratory notebooks (c.1906–08) and diary (n.d.) on viticulture; printed reports, 1884, 1904–1912; Minutes of Council, 1895–1902; and several entires titled ‘Department of Agriculture’.

Agriculture Department

GRG 10

(General, and main, series holdings are in GRG 10; supplementary records and later transfers of material are in the separate GRS series, including material listed under GRS or awaiting transfer from the Department of Primary Industry and Resources South Australia)

The Department of Agriculture was established in 1902; it ceased to exist as a government agency under that name on 8 October 1992. No annual reports from the Department of Agriculture were published between 1972 and 1986. For the period 1975–79 the department was known as the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. Information on, for example, the department’s Experimental Research Stations is contained in State Records files.

GRG 10/5/1–5 Department of Agriculture, letters received, subject index

GRG 10/1 Department of Agriculture, correspondence files 1902–45

GRG 10/4 Index to letters sent, 1938–46, 1955–67

GRG 10/8 Combined control register, and index (up to 1930) of letters received by the Department, 1918–71, 34 vols

GRG 10/18–23 Dairy Produce Board: see note below

GRG 10/52 Women’s Agricultural Bureau membership records

GRG 10/57 Minutes of branches of the Agricultural Bureau, 1903–74, 46 vols

GRG 10/60 Index of letters received by the Office of the Minister, 1925–43, 1 vol.

GRG 10/97 Kangaroo Island Research Centre. Stock Book 1951–54. 1 vol.

GRG 10/125 Flora and Fauna Committee Minutes, 1937–62

GRS 2493/1 Department of Agriculture, handwritten docket alpha-indexed register of correspondence Index (‘Index Reference Book to Authorities Book’), 1920–50s.
GRS 758 Minister of Agriculture correspondence 1901–83 (with gaps).
GRS 4769–4774 Rural Youth records, 1950s–70s inclusive.
Dairy Produce Board

GRG 10/18–23

The South Australian Dairy Produce Board, established by the Dairy Produce Act 1934 ,was concerned with butter and cheese for the local market. The Board was not connected to the South Australian Advisory Dairy Board (GRG 10/24–26), with the first appointments in March 1923 (for correspondence re its foundation see Minister of Agriculture files 53/1922 and 24/1923). In October 1933 its name changed to the South Australian Committee of the Australian Dairy Council; in January 1937 it became the South Australian Committee of the Australian Dairy Produce Board; in August 1938 a name change to the Australian Dairy Produce Board, Pasture Improvement Committee (SA). The Secretary was Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and two other employees of the Department of Agriculture were on the Committee, which wound up in 1971.

Attorney-General’s Department

GRG 1/63

Australian Barley Board

GRG 106/1 Correspondence and subject files, 1940–43 and 1939–45 (converted to GRS 523/1).

Crown Law Office

GRG 57

Drought Relief and Farmers’ Assistance Board

GRG 6

GRG6/1 Farmers Assistance Act, 1933 and Primary Producers Assistance Department – correspondence, 1934–1951

GRG6/2 Debt Adjustment Act, 1929 – correspondence

GRG6/3 Farmers Assistance Board: Primary Producers Debts Act, 1935 – correspondence

GRG6/4 Farmers Assistance Board 1933 – correspondence

GRG6/5 Drought Fund 1914 files

GRG6/6 Drought Relief Act, 1927 files

GRG6/7 Drought Relief Act, 1928 files

GRG6/8 Drought Relief Acts, 1928–1929 files

GRG6/9 Farmers Relief Act, 1931 files

GRG6/10 Drought Relief Arrears files

GRG6/11 Farmers Relief Act Extension Act, 1931 files

GRG6/12 Farmers Relief Act, 1932 files

GRG6/13 Farmers Assistance Act, 1933 files

GRG6/14 Primary Producer Debts Act, 1935 and Primary Producer Debts Act, 1935–1939 files

GRG6/15 Farmers Assistance Board Distribution files, 1934 – 1937

GRG6/16 Drought Relief Act, 1940 files

GRG6/17 Farmers Assistance Act, 1933 – minutes of Board

GRG6/18 Primary Producers Debts Act, 1935–1941 – minutes of Board

GRG6/19 Primary Producers Debts Act, 1935–1941 and Primary Producers Assistance Act, 1943 – register of schemes, 1935–1943

GRG6/20 Farmers Relief Act, 1932 – list of applicants

GRG6/21 Farmers Relief Act Extension Act, 1931 – list of applicants

GRG6/22 Drought Relief Act, 1940 – minutes of Board, 1940–1942

GRG6/23 Farmers Assistance Board Department/Primary Producers Assistance Department – register of securities lodged, 1936–1953

GRG6/24 Primary Producers Assistance Department: Crown Solicitors and other legal opinions copies, 1930–1940

GRG6/25 Notices of dismissal etc under Primary Producers Debts Act, 1935–1939

GRG6/26 Debt Adjustment Department, c. 1929–1934 – ledger
Fauna and Flora Board

GRG 80/1/1–3 Minutes, 4 February 1920–18 January 1944, 15 February 1944–24 May 1965, 23 August 1965–18 April 1972

Fisheries Department

GRG 81.

See also GRG 51/17

Immigration, Publicity and Tourism Department

GRG 7

Includes Barwell Boys and agricultural labourers (see series 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16–19, 24, 56–57, 80/8,11,12, 100)