Abc television

Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science

GRG 128

Records consist of annual reports, 1938–40, 1943–44, 1949–79. 32 vols. Printed [nos. 1, 2, 6, 12–41].

Honey Board

GRG 62

Operated from 1949 to 1964

Lands Department

GRG 35 – general and main series of holdings

Drought relief and assistance to farmers

GRG 35/64–83 Additional records relating to drought relief and assistance to farmers (see GRG 6).

War Service Land Settlement

The main settlement schemes in South Australia were in the Lower South East, Kangaroo Island, the higher rainfall areas of Eyre Peninsula, and on the land set aside for irrigation purposes in the Upper River Murray district. The Land Board (GRG 35/198) allotted allocations on a competitive basis. For example, GRG 35/561/pt 1/Box 4, ‘Land Development Board Parndana East. Depot Buildings etc.’ Information on contracts, cartage, plant and stores disposal; and Penneshaw East Sale. (Includes stock agents’ auction catalogues).

GRG 35/193 ‘Classification Points’ gives the point system judged on interviewing potential settlers, and the form that was filled on application.
GRG 35/198 Soldier Settlement Commission (Melbourne 1954).

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  ‘Letter Drafts’ includes procedures on settlers’ applications. For example, ‘Procedure on allotment’, lists the forms provided to the settler, i.e., Living allowance form, Tax concession form, Removal expense form, Acknowledgment form, Undertaking form, Detail of structural improvements, 12 application for Advance forms.
  
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  ‘Letters etc. relating to meetings of C/tees’. Additionally, the War Service Land Settlement Central Classification Committee (there were committees for Dry Lands and for Irrigation areas) required applicants to fill a form for initial application for classification for land settlement. This was to be signed before a JP; three written references covering the applicant’s experience in primary production and/or regarding his character were to be provided; his personal appearance before a Classification Committee, at which he produced his discharge certificate, was also required. If men were still on war service they could apply to participate but no decision would be made before their discharge.
  

GRG 35/561, Box 1, Subject files – Kangaroo Island Office. Comprehensive information.

Land Development Executive

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  Soldier Settlement records. These records contains folders that originally were probably used on Kangaroo Island for daily management of the scheme. Information includes boundary fence maps, town maps, and catalogues of the plant and equipment sales of 1962–63 etc.
  
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  Several boxes in this series, including form letters for the South East district. One letter dated 28 June 1955 by the Director of Lands to W.A. Williams, Head Teacher, Parndana School, outlines the settlement scheme policy. (Williams requested the information to help with a course in farm book-keeping, which he intended teaching, presumably to soldier settlers.)
  

GRG 35/400 Index to Scrub, Miscellaneous and Selectors’ Leases. c.1860–1900.

There are 15 GRS record series listed for the Agriculture Department, which comprise several shelf metres of boxed records. Most will be more or less relevant or useful.
Mines Department

GRG 30

Probably little substantial material directly relating to agriculture
National Park

GRG 60

Records include those of the National Parks Commission, 1892– and photographs c.1910–70.
Oyster Fisheries

GRG 51/289

Pastoral Board of South Australia

GRG 35/136–143 Records, including minutes (four volumes) to 1898

Primary Industry and Resources South Australia (search incomplete)

Predecessor agencies include: GA 204, GA 241, GA 741

Office of the Minister (title varies) include: GA 316, GA 1059, GA 1082
GRS 487/1/P Stock Disease Acts, 1888–1962
GRS 491/1/P Minutes of the Board of Examiners of Stock Inspectors, 1891–1957

GRS 492/1/P Letters sent by the Board of Examiners of Stock Inspectors, 1946–50 (see also GRS 17)

GRS 493/1/P Certificates of Competence for appointment as an Inspector of Stock, 1950

GRS 494/1/P Examination papers (Subject: Re: attack of the Irish …), 1949–57

GRS 524/1/P Index to DA correspondence 1973–1976
GRS 525/1/P DA correspondence 1971–1976

GRS 525/2/P DA correspondence 1983–1988

GRS 525/3/P DA correspondence 1980–1985

GRS 525/4/P DA correspondence 1977–1980

GRS 525/5/P DA correspondence 1981

GRS 525/6/P DA correspondence 1982

GRS 525/7/P DA correspondence 1973–1989

GRS 525/8/P DA correspondence 1991–1993

GRS 525/9/P DA correspondence 1990

GRS 525/10/P DA correspondence 1978–1998

GRS 525/11/P DA correspondence 1983–1995
GRS 544 Minutes – South Australian Potato Board
GRS 545 Payments to growers
GRS 546 Ledgers (bound printouts), chronological series
GRS 555 Promotion and Publicity Files
GRS 556 Managers Files
GRS 557 Budget Papers
GRS 727/1/P Marginal dairy farms assistance files, 1974–76

GRS 738/1/P Fodder subsidy files, 1982–

GRS 739/1/P Beef Industry Assistance files, 1977–83
GRS 964/1/P Ministerial correspondence – Fisheries, 1979–82

GRS 964/2/P Ministerial correspondence – Fisheries, 1985–87

GRS 964/3/P Ministerial correspondence – Fisheries, 1973–75
GRS 1256/1/P Butter brands, 1929–65

GRS 1257/1/P Reports of Dairy Factory Audits, 1950–83

GRS 1258/1/P Margarine licences, 1935–79
GRS 1336/1/P Animal health files, 1953–85: 122 boxes of ADI files stored in Animal Health shed, Glenside at 13/11/2002. This set of records may become ‘temporary value’.

GRS 1336/2/P Animal health files, 1953–85: 126 boxes of ADI files stored in Animal Health shed, Glenside

GRS 1768/1/P Freight concession scheme dockets, 1982–84

GRS 1816/1/P Marginal and Pastoral Areas Enquiry Committee, 1946–48 (see also GRS 1817, 1818)

GRS 1817/1/P Report on overseas study leave, 1950– (see also GRS 1816, 1818)

GRS 1818/1/P Texts of public addresses and radio broadcasts, 1940–60 (see also GRS 1816, 1817)

GRS 2020/1/P Advisory Board of Agriculture minutes, 1965–1977

GRS 2020/2/P Advisory Board of Agriculture files, 1977–1992

GRS 2020/3/P Advisory Board of Agriculture files, 1990–1996

GRS 2020/4/P Advisory Board of Agriculture files, 1989–1993

GRS 2353/1/P Primary Producers Assistance registers, 1935–82 (see also GRS 718, 727, 738, 739)
GRS 2493/1/P Department of Agriculture docket/correspondence register, 1920–50
GRS 2494/1/P Photographs: Directors, Department of Agriculture ?–1992
GRS 2956/1/P File ref.: 99/1619, Ministerial enquiries – Agriculture, 1986–89
GRS 2957/1/P File ref.: 99/1619, Ministerial enquiries – Fisheries, 1986–89
GRS 3223 Vineyard Returns
GRS 3339/1/D Rural finance application files, 1971–86

GRS 3339/2/D Rural finance application files, 1979–87

GRS 3934/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA photos, 1894–1954

GRS 4751/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA State pruning competition minutes, 1958–77

GRS 4752/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA handbooks and publications, 1914–89

GRS 4753/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Willalooka Branch minutes and rolls, 1966–84

GRS 4754/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Younghusband Branch minutes and rolls, 1947–77

GRS 4755/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Monarto Branch minutes and rolls, 1911–74

GRS 4756/1/P Agricultural Bureau Broughton Area regional executive committee minutes, 1968–77

GRS 4757/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Lucindale Branch minutes, 1945–57

GRS 4758/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Brownlow Branch minutes, 1930–46

GRS 4759/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Burdett Branch minutes, 1949–61

GRS 4760/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Keyneton Branch minutes and rolls, 1937–50

GRS 4761/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Neales Flat Branch minutes, 1946–55

GRS 4762/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Mount Pleasant Branch minutes, 1969–72

GRS 4763/1/P Agricultural Bureau of SA Northern Lower Eyre Peninsula Branch minutes, 1966–68

GRS 4768 Agricultural Bureau of SA – Branch histories in loose papers and volumes, 1 box, c. 1987

GRS 8194/1/P Agricultural Bureau Branch & District Activities files, 1987–96

GRS 8195/1/P Advisory Board of Agriculture and Agricultural Bureau of SA history, 1932–99
GRS 4764/1/P Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA Council minutes, 1971–79

GRS 4765/1/P Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA Glenelg Branch minutes and rolls, 1951–84

GRS 4766/1/P Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA Bray Branch minutes, 1976–85

GRS 4767/1/P Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA Comung Branch minutes and rolls, 1955–84

GRS 4794/1/P Women’s Agricultural Bureau of SA handbooks and publications, 1937–74
GRS 4769/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA State Committee minutes, 1958–1979

GRS 4770/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA Council minutes, 1950–1979

GRS 4771/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA Branch minutes, 1956–1980

GRS 4772/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA Branch histories in loose papers and volumes, c. 1987

GRS 4773/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA handbooks and publications, 1955–1978

GRS 4774/1/P Rural Youth Movement of SA programs, 1952–1978

GRS 5784/1/P Media releases, 1991–96
GRS 6038/15/P General correspondence files, 1950–89 [Note: Mines & Energy material]

GRS 6038/10/P General correspondence, 1948–90 (and beyond) [Note: Mines & Energy material]

GRS 8335/1/P Exhibition photographs, 1912–29
GRS 8401/1/D Administrative files, 1907–62
GRS 11522 Minutes – Phylloxera and Grape Industry Board
GRS 11485 Minutes – South Australian Rural Advisory Council (SARAC)

GRS 11486 Executive Officer records – South Australian Rural Advisory Council (SARAC)

GRS 11527 Minutes – Dried Fruits Board of South Australia

GRS 11533 Reports – Dried Fruits Board of South Australia 

GRS 11560 Annual reports – Dried Fruits Board of South Australia
GRS 11536 Minutes and agendas – Potato Industry Trust Fund Committee
Produce Department

GRG 20 (see also Agent-General for SA – GRG 55)

An important trading/marketing outlet for agricultural and pastoral production locally and overseas.
Phylloxera Board

GRG 91

See also GRG 10/30/23 for minutes and correspondence 1936–44 and see GA 593 for Phylloxera & Grape Industry Board of SA
Public Service Commissioner

GRG 37
Royal Commission into the Grape Growing Industry, 1965

GRG 98
Services and Supply, Chemistry Division

GRG 105

Probably little substantial material directly relating to agriculture: what there is comes mainly under the Government Analyst’s work on water analysis, fibre identification, crop irregularities and so forth for private customers; there is a little on viticulture.
South Australian Country Fire Service

(The Country Fires Act, 1977 reconstituted the Emergency Fire Service as the CFS of SA.)

GRS 558/2/P General correspondence files, 1963–1998

GRS 6920/1/P CFS annual reports, 1978–1997

Treasury Department

GRG 45/20 Seed wheat agreements between the Treasurer and District Councils

GRG 45/21 Letters sent by Secretary and Under Treasurer to the Minister of Agriculture, July 1901 to June 1904
Woods and Forests Department

GRG 16 (and GRG 1/63 under Attorney-General’s records)

Extensive records of forestry operations in SA

Sources of illustrations

Photographs/film/videos

It is likely that there will be far more illustrative material (photos, maps, films, videos, slides, glass plates) than can be incorporated in a single publication: existing publications etc show an extensive range of material. The option of doing a pictorial volume in addition to a volume of history could be considered: a ‘coffee table’ history of agriculture in SA could accompany the departmental history (either as part of a set or as a stand-alone volume).

State Library of SA pictorial collection (preliminary search only)

Search by ‘agriculture’= 42 (including Broken Hill)

Search by ‘farmhouses’ = 209 (including interstate).

The Searcy Collection = 18 722 photos (some only are of agricultural subjects).

PRG 23/6 includes albums of miscellaneous photographs of farming and station properties, horse-drawn vehicles, townships, farm buildings and implements.
The former collection of the Agriculture Department’s material is being sorted and arranged by Arthur Tideman and Trevor Roberts, including any material held in private hands that is suitable for incorporation in the collection.
The glass plate negative collection held by the History Trust of SA includes many interesting and rarely seen photographs of relevance to the history of agriculture.
National Library of Australia; La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria; various government and private archives; RA&HS library etc. – not searched, but many are a rich archive of relevant photos.
McDougall, K., Winery Buildings in South Australia 1836 to 1936. Part 2: The Southern Districts, Working Paper 7, Architecture Papers, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, The University of Adelaide, May 1983. ISBN 0 86396 027 8. [Reproduces archival photographs and photographs taken at the time of the study, and outlines the background conditions and early histories of 26 wineries.]

Maps

A range of historical and contemporary maps will be an essential component of any published work. The State Library of South Australia, the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, the Geography Department at the University of Adelaide, and PIRSA’s library will be important for their collections of relevant maps (both broad-scale and for specific detail). Good quality mapping for publication can be prepared through PIRSA’s Publications Services.

Some further options for research
Records of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute have not been identified for this bibliography. The work of Prof. James Prescott on viticulture and soils, for example, may be one instance for generating material. (His son, Professor John Prescott, formerly of the Physics Department at Adelaide University, might be a possible contact for an interview.)
Many records (1908–1943) of Dr J.J.C. Bradfield (1867–1943) of the Public Works Department of NSW, a strong advocate of a scheme to provide an Australian inland lake through river diversion, are in the National Library of Australia (NLA MS 4712). The level of South Australian content has not been researched for this bibliography.
Catalogues for the State Libraries of, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia were not researched in any great detail for either manuscript or printed material for this bibliography.
AGRICultural OnLine Access (AGRICOLA) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its co-operators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970. Citations and abstracts only are provided. The Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA database is updated quarterly. This will be a useful guide, at least for identifying immediate past and current trends.
Publications of the Council for Australian Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIR to May 1949; thereafter CSIRO) have not been searched, but CSIRO publication lists are extensive. For example, CSIRO Research for Australia: Agriculture, CSIRO Research for Australia: 16, CSIRO, Canberra, 1987.
The worth of searching for publications of the Agriculture & Horticulture Training Council of South Australia is unknown.
The Society for Engineering in Agriculture, Australia (for example, History of Mittze Bros., South Australia, prepared by John Fielke, Roseworthy) might have valuable findings in its records.
RIRDC (Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation). Research Reports. Full text reports are available online through , the Rural E-Reference Centre homepage. [Not accessed].
New material to be added to the listings above
Rankine, B.C. (Bryce Crossley), Evolution of the modern Australian wine industry: a personal appraisal. Adelaide, Ryan Publications, 1996.
Examples of Parliamentary papers and inquiries

SAPP 58: 1871 Royal Commission on Manufactures of Metals. Agricultural Machinery and Implements (customs and excise tariffs minutes of evidence)

SAPP 24: 1902 Public Service Classification Board
SAPP 5: 1921–39 Public Service Commissioner Report
SAPP 55, 56: 1922 Royal Commission on the Public Service of South Australia
SAPP 45: 1954 Efficiency of the Public Service
SAPP 17: 1964 Public Service Commissioner Report
SAPP 17: 1980 Public Service Board Annual Report
SAPP Reports of the Minister of Agriculture (and successors)

including Roseworthy Agricultural College annual reports

SAPP: annually from 1946 Parliamentary Committee on Land Settlement reports

Journal of Historical Geography
Environmental Management
Forest Conservation History (formerly Journal of Forest History)
ARMCANZ, Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand – Record and Resolutions, First meeting, Alice Springs, 29 July 1993. Department of Primary Industries and Energy: Canberra, 1993.
CBD, Convention of Biological Diversity – Convention Text, www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp, 1993.
CoAG, Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Agreement. www.coag.gov.au/meetings/250604/iga_national_water_initiative.pdf, 2004.
Cottingham, I., Handbook to the Australian Agricultural Council, 3^rd edn, Department of Primary Industry, Canberra, 1985.
CRC Directory, Cooperative Research Centres Programme CRC Directory 2004. Department of Education and Science: Canberra, 2004.
DEST, National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia’s Biological Diversity. Department of Environment, Sport and Territories: Canberra, 1996.
ESD Steering Committee, Draft National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development. AGPS, Canberra, 1992.
PIMC, Record and Resolutions of the Primary Industries Ministerial Council, First Meeting, 2 May 2002. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra, 2002.
PIRSA–SARDI, 50 years of fruit fly eradication in South Australia 1947–1997
Productivity Commission, Trade & Assistance Review 2002–03: Annual Report Series. Productivity Commission, Canberra, 2003.
State of Environment Advisory Council, Australian State of Environment 1996. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1996.
Agriculture Department annual reports in SA libraries

1.

Report of the Minister of Agriculture, Adelaide: Government Printer, 1895–1904

Journal Dates: 1894–95–1903–04.

Later Title: South Australia. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Department of Agriculture.

Former Title: Agricultural Bureau of South Australia. Annual report of the Agricultural Bureau

Held at: State Library of South Australia held 1894/5–1895/6; 1899/1900–1900/1

Roseworthy Campus Library 1012667 630.9942 S726AN.4 1894/95–1903/04

Waite Library 1012667 63(06) S72r

2.

Annual report, Department of Agriculture South Australia. Department of Agriculture [Adelaide], 1987–1992

Notes: Merged with: South Australia. Department of Fisheries. Annual report; and South Australia. Woods and Forests Department Annual report to form Primary Industries South Australia. Annual report.

Numbering Note: Report year ends June 30.

Later Title: Primary Industries South Australia. Annual report

South Australia. Department of Fisheries. Annual report

South Australia. Woods and Forests Department. Annual report

Former Title: South Australia. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Minister of Agriculture; South Australia. Department of Agriculture. Annual report of the Department of Agriculture for the year ended …

Held at: Flinders University. 567291 630.5 S72a Central Library (1990/91–1991/92)

State Library of South Australia 1986/87; 1989/90–1991/92

Roseworthy Campus Library 630.9942 S726AN.9 1986/87–1991/92

Waite Library 63(06) S72a 1986/87–1991/92

University of SA Per 630.99423 S726 1991/92 only; Per 063.549423 A278 1987– 1991/92 Impf.

National Library of Australia
Wanbi Agricultural Centre, South Australia Department of Agriculture, Wanbi Agricultural Centre Field Day, 5th October, 1988. [Adelaide], Department of Agriculture, South Australia, 1988.
Wanbi Agricultural Centre, South Australia Department of Agriculture, Wanbi Agricultural Centre field day, Tuesday, 1st October, 1991. [Adelaide], Department of Agriculture, South Australia, 1991.
Pocock, D.R. (compiler and editor), Wanbi Agricultural Centre field day, Wednesday, 20th September, 1989. [Adelaide], Department of Agriculture, South Australia, [1989].
South Australia Department of Agriculture, Wanbi Research Centre Field Day 1966. [Adelaide], Department of Agriculture, South Australia, 1966.
McCord, A.K., Fawcett, R.G. & Wood, R.M., A report to the Rural Credit Development Fund: Wanbi trash farming experiment, 1980–1983. [Adelaide], South Australian Department of Agriculture, [1984]. South Australia Department of Agriculture & Murray Lands Region Rural Credits Development Fund (SA).
Wanbi Research Centre (SA), Annual report: Wanbi Research Centre. [Wanbi, SA, The Centre, 1971–].

‘A working bibliography on South Australian agriculture and its history’ by Bernard O’Neil

Last updated 13 December 2006

Draft for the Agriculture History Project Steering Committee