PIONEER SUGAR MILLS ARCHIVE Correspondence and Transactions, 1932 to 1963 Archive Location 106L (Box 10) CT/4/1. Forms: Declaration by taxpayers claiming a rebate of tax instalment deductions in respect of dependants. 1/4/43-25/6/45. CT/4/2. Henry E. Brickhill- Secretary, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. 27/4/75 CT/4/3. George C. Petersen, Ayr - Secretary, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. 24/5/45 CT/4/4. List of derricks, proposed extensions to sidings, and stop blocks, tramways, 1949. CT/4/5. Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. Forecast of finance required for expansion programme, Inkerman Mill 18/5/50. CT/4/6. Notes on depreciation for income tax purposes 8/8/50. CT/4/7. Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd: Forecast of finance required for expansion program, Pioneer and Inkerman Mills including rough notes and estimations and final estimate. 15/8/50. In folder. CT/4/8. Secretary - Manager (Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd.) - F.S. Sutton of Fadde, Sutton & Co., Townsville 23/8/50 re expansion programmes enclosing Statement of profit available to shareholders and which could be retained for finance for expansion programme; statement of depreciation; statement of reduced depreciation, statement of discontinued depreciation. CT/4/9. Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. - Statements and appendices forecasting the Company's financial position 1950-1958 including working notes, calculations and final estimates. August 1950. CT/4/10. Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd (circular) G.R. Drysdale, R.R. Russell, G.S. Tullis, W.B. Robertson 29.8.50 enclosing (copy) F.S. Sutton of Fadden, Sutton & Co.- Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. 24/8/50 CT/4/11. Air letter W.B. Robertson, Dunfermline, Scotland - G.R. Ashwell, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd.7/9/50. CT/4/12. Rough workings, Commonwealth income tax payable by U.K. shareholders on various incomes (preparing answer to (11) above) CT/4/13. Secretary - Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd.- W.B. Robertson 21/9/50 (answer to (11) above) CT/4/14. (a) Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd, Inkerman Mill Dr. H.W. Kerr, Director of Research, Sugar Research Ltd. 22/1/51 (b) H.W. Kerr - E.R. Behne, Manager, Inkerman Mill 19/1/51 (c) Report W. Davidson, Secretary - Manager - Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. 26/8/50 CT/4/15. Investigation for report into cost of erection and completion of dwellings for a housing estate, R.W. Evans, 4/3/51. CT/4/16. Report, w. Davidson, Secretary - Manager Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd - Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. 3/7/51 with rough working for report and estimates. 1
CT/4/17. Statements: (a) Building programme. (b) Re-estimate of forecast of finance required for expansion programme, Inkerman Mill. (31/12/51) CT/4/18. Rough workings - Statements (a) Special Expansion Account, A & NZ Bank, Townsville (b) Capital expenditure since 15/9/51, dated 18/2/52 CT/4/19. Memorandum, W.B. Robertson to G.R. Ashwell, 23/1/52 CT/4/20. (a) Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd - W.B. Robertson, 3/4/52. (b) C.J. Gordon, Manager, A & NZ Bank, Townsville -Managing Director, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. no date. (c) Secretary - Manager, Pioneer Sugar mills Ltd, 7/4/52 - (circular) G.R. Drysdale, Sydney and R.R. Russell, 7/4/52. (d) W.B. Robertson of Hay & Robertson Ltd., Dunfermline- G.R. Ashwell, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. 18/3/52. (e) Secretary - Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd - G.R. Drysdale 7/4/52 and copies of above. CT/4/21. Secretary - Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd - G.S. Tullis, Leslie, Scotland 7/4/52 22. (a)? - W.D. Davidson, Secretary and Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd, 13/5/52. (b) Rough workings, finance for mill expansion programmes. CT/4/23. Folder: Mr. Davidson's visit to Brisbane, 1953: enclosures (a) Sheet entitled, "Bowls 18 March at Windsor Bowling Green". (b) Chief Engineer's Report on Tour of Northern Sugar Mills 24-30 September 1952 to the Manager Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd. (c) Note (in pencil): "Concrete Mixer for Pioneer", undated. (d) Circular: E.T.S. Pearce (Sec. Aust. Sugar Producers Assoc. Ltd.) to conference delegates and branch secretaries attending conference. (e) Forecast of Financial Requirements for Expansion Programme, 27 January, 1953. Report prepared by W. Davidson (Sec. Manager). (f) Papers of the Fifth Ordinary General Meeting of Members of the Sugar Research Institute 24 March 1953, including the Annual Report of the Board of Directors, 1953. (g) Sugar Research Limited. Projected Staffing for Research Laboratories. Schematic plan attached. (h) Sugar Research Institute. Report of the Director of Research to the Board of Directors, 10 March 1953. CT/4/24. Folder. Mr. R.R. Russell: Overseas visit. enclosures: (a) R.R. Russell to Secretary - Manager, Pioneer Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd, 2/2/53. (b) Mr. Robertson - R. Russell, 19/1/53. (c) Fadden, Sutton & Co. to Secretary, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. 13/2/53. CT/4/25. Folder. The Proprietary Sugar Mills' Association Annual Meeting, 20/3/53, enclosures:- (a) Agenda (annotated). (b) Chairman's address to members 20/3/53. (c) Typed handout setting out income, expenditure for year ended 28/2/53 and Balance Sheet as at 28/2/53. CT/4/26. Folder: Director's meeting 14/7/45. Enclosures:- (a) Minutes of Meeting of Directors, 14 July 1954 (in pencil). (b) Plane bookings. 2
(c) Travelling Expenses. (d) Agenda Paper with resolutions noted. (e) Farm Peak Schemes - Basis of Tonnage Available, 22 September 1954. (f) Central Sugar Cane Prices Board, Cane Assignments & Farm Peaks, 7 June 1954. (g) Matrix setting out names of growers and production for 1951 to 1953. (h) Suggested agenda paper for Directors' Meeting to be held on Wednesday 14 July, 1954. (i) List of Seal Affixations to be confirmed at the Directors' Meeting of 14 July 1954 (2 copies). (j) Fadden, Sutton & Co.to Sec. Manager Sugar Mills (Pty) Ltd., 11 March 1953 re: Company Structure (3 copies). (k) Correspondence: (i). a) Fadden, Sutton & Coy. To W. Davidson, 7 August 1953. b). F.S.Sutton tom.allen (Hemingway & Robertson Institute, 7 August 1953). (l) Report to Directors: Staff Reorganisation Presented at Meeting of Board 14 July 1954. (m) Estimated Cost of Shifting and Extending Molasses Delivery Pipeline to new position. (n) Notes on Bulk Handling. Reports by Messrs.E.L. Plomley & F.M. Chapman, 8 February, 1954. CT/4/27. J.A.Gunn of Fitzgerald, Gunn & Partners, Chartered Accountants 29/11/61 - R.R. Russell. CT/4/28. (copy) J.A.L.Gunn - Mr. Russell 11/12/61 CT/4/29. (copy) Roberts Leu & North - General Secretary, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. 30/9/63 CT/4/30. Extract from airmail letter from W. Davidson, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. - G.S. Russell 4/10/63 CT/4/31. Blank forms, notice of sale or purchase of land and state land tax. Journals of Accounts Archival Location 101 (Shelf 98) PMR/JA/1. 1894-95 PMR/JA/2. 1895-97 PMR/JA/3. 1897-1900 PMR/JA/4. 1900-04 Pioneer Estate PMR/JA/5. 1904-08 Pioneer Estate PMR/JA/6. 1908-11 Pioneer PMR/JA/7. 1911-14 Pioneer Estate PMR/JA/8. 1914-18 Pioneer Mill PMR/JA/9. 1918-23 Pioneer Mill PMR/JA/10. 1924-30 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd. PMR/JA/11. 1930-37 Pioneer Sugar Mill PMR/JA/12. 1914-20 Drysdale Brothers and Company PMR/JA/13. 1921-35 Drysdale Brothers and Company PMR/JA/14. 1936-37 Drysdale Brothers and Company Cash Books Archive Location 102 (Shelf 99) PMR/CB/1. 1894-98 PMR/CB/2. 1898-1910 PMR/CB/3. 1910-23 PMR/CB/4. 1900-22 Pioneer Estate PMR/CB/5. 1923-38 Pioneer Estate PMR/CB/6. 1914-25 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 1 3
PMR/CB/7. 1926-32 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 2 PMR/CB/8. 1933-39 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 3 PMR/CB/9. 1939-44 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 4 PMR/CB/10. 1944-49 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 5 (contains list of shareholders) PMR/CB/11. 1923-39 Drysdale, Ritchie and Coy, Farm Accounts PMR/CB/12. 1942-45 Pioneer Sugar Mill Cheque Journals - Pioneer Sugar Mills Archive Location 103 (Shelf 100) PMR/CJ/1. 1883-1898 PMR/CJ/2. 1898-1904 PMR/CJ/3. 1904-08 PMR/CJ/4. 1908-13 PMR/CJ/5. 1913-18 PMR/CJ/6. 1914-30 PMR/CJ/7. 1917-23 PMR/CJ/8. 1923-30 PMR/CJ/9. 1929-32 PMR/CJ/10. 1931-35 PMR/CJ/11. 1932-36 Individual Accounts Ledgers Archive Location 104A (Shelf 101) PMR/IAL/1. 1892-1900 Pioneer Estate PMR/IAL/2. 1900-1914 Pioneer Estate PMR/IAL/3. 1894-1898 PMR/IAL/4. 1899-1905 PMR/IAL/5. 1906-11 PMR/IAL/6. 1914-1925 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 1 PMR/IAL/7. 1926-1933 Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 2 Duplicate Statement Books PMR/DSB/1. 1900-02 Pioneer Mill PMR/DSB/2. 1901-02 Pioneer Mill PMR/DSB/3. 1903-05 Pioneer Mill PMR/DSB/4. 1906-08 Kalamia Estate Wages Books (Paysheets) Archival Location 104B (Shelf 102) PMR/WB/1. 1899-901 Seaforth Estate PMR/WB/2. 1910-12 Pioneer Estate PMR/WB/3. 1912-14 Pioneer Estate PMR/WB/4. 1914-17 Inkerman Mill PMR/WB/5. 1914-15 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/6. 1916-17 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/7. 1917-18 Pioneer Mill on loan to H. Rathbone PMR/WB/8. 1919-20 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/9. 1920-22 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/10. 1922-23 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/11. 1923-24 Pioneer Mill PMR/WB/12. 1924-26 Pioneer Mill 4
PMR/WB/13. 1926-27 Pioneer Mill Maintenance Records, Pioneer Mill PMR/MR/1. 1933-34 PMR/MR/2. 1935-36 PMR/MR/3. 1937-38 Records of Crushing, Pioneer Mill PMR/RC/1. 1904-06 PMR/RC/2. 1908 PMR/RC/3. 1909-11 Correspondence Books, Drysdale Bros. & Coy. PMR/CORR/1. 1941-42 PMR/CORR/2. 1943 PMR/CORR/3. 1944-45 Miscellaneous Volumes Archival Location 104D (Shelf 103) PMR/MISC/1. Rough Cash book, 1900-06 PMR/MISC/2. Account Book, 1905 PMR/MISC/3. Stock Book, 1905 PMR/MISC/4. Rent Book, Drysdale Bros. & Coy., 1905-14 (and later entries) PMR/MISC/5. Irrigation Records,1906-07 PMR/MISC/6. Department of Trade and Customs Sugar Manufacturer's Diary, 1908-13 PMR/MISC/7. Sugar boiler's report, 1908-11 PMR/MISC/8. Pioneer Social Club Accounts, 1908-1919 (contains minutes of meetings of employers, 1908) PMR/MISC/9. Duplicate Receipts and correspondence, Drysdale Bros. & Coy., 1902-17 PMR/MISC/10. Costs Book, Pioneer Estate, 1909-14 PMR/MISC/111. Night Book (Cane deliveries), 1910 PMR/MISC/12. Statement Book, 1910 PMR/MISC/13. Account Books, Drysdale Bros. & Coy., 1912-1939 (winding-up) PMR/MISC/14. Weekly Returns, Pioneer Estate, 1913-14 (15) Statement Book, 1914-17 PMR/MISC/15. Farm Accounts, 1915-23 PMR/MISC/17. Share Holders' Ledger, Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd., 1916-33 PMR/MISC/18. Cash Book, 1916-22 PMR/MISC/19. Record of Cane cut by Chinese Gang, 1917 PMR/MISC/20. Trial Balance Book, 1924-28 PMR/MISC/21. Salary Receipt Book, 1924-28 PMR/MISC/22. Dissection of Wages Year, Pioneer Mill, 1931-32 PMR/MISC/23. Staff Superannuation Fund Records, Pioneer Sugar Pty. Ltd., 1932-55 PMR/MISC/24. Record of Cane Prices (?), 1933 PMR/MISC/25. Farm Assignment Surveys Notebook, 1937 PMR/MISC/26. Account Book, l938-47 PMR/MISC/27. Account Book, 1939-42 PMR/MISC/28. Cane Journal, Inkerman Mill, l941 64 PMR/MISC/29. Register of Pacific Islanders employed at Pioneer. Note - Provenance of these documents has been determined by an inspection of their contents. Where the origin is not apparent on brief inspection, none has been given. Note: Relocated 1/10/93. Shelf 104C Folder: A.W. formerly 101, Folder JRW/3 formerly 101, Folder CONJ formerly 5
Additions: PMR/MISC/30 1912-1928 H-L Farm ledger. Location 238. PMR/MISC/31 1912-1928 M-Z Farm ledger 6