Ruthven Ltd. records

MLMSS 11334/Boxes 1-30
MLMSS 11334/Volumes 31X-34X

fonds

1911-1958

Textual Records, Objects

9585907

6.18 metres of textual material (30 boxes and 4 outsize volumes)

This collection includes the records of Ruthven Limited (incorporated in New South Wales), a pastoral company that owned stations in Queensland ('Charlotte Plains' and 'Ruthven').

Box 1
Draft minute book, 1917-1924
Draft minute book, 1914-1917
Share register, c. 1918-1927
Draft minute book, 1911-1920

Box 2
Draft minute book, 1924-1927
Draft minute book, 1927-1930
Draft minute book, 1930-1932

Box 3
Draft minute book, 1932-1934
Draft minute book, 1934-1935
Draft minute book, 1935-1938

Box 4
Draft minute book, 1938-1940
Draft minute book, 1940-1944

Box 5
Minute Book, 1920-1928
Minute Book, 1928-1932

Box 6
Minute Book, 1932-1935
Minute Book, 1935-1942

Box 7
Minute Book, 1942-1951
Draft minute book, 1944-1948

Box 8
‘Minute book Annual Meetings’, includes voluntary liquidation documents, 1937-1950
Draft minute book, 1948-1952

Box 9
Transfer Journal, 1928-1947
Share Register, 1911-1926
Share Ledger, 1927-1946

Box 10
Journal, 1943-1948
Cash book, 1944-1957
Journal ‘In Liquidation’, 1948-1957

Box 11
Charlotte Plains returns, 1943-1944
Charlotte Plains returns, 1944-1945
Charlotte Plains returns, 1945-1946

Box 12
Charlotte Plains Station Returns, 1946-1947
Charlotte Plains Station Returns, 1947

Box 13
Charlotte Plains Station Returns, 1948
Charlotte Plains Station Returns, 1948-1950
Charlotte Plains Station Returns, 1950-1951

Box 14
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1944
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1944
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1945
Invoices Ruthven Station, 1943
Vouchers Ruthven Station, 1944
Invoices Ruthven Station 1944

Box 15
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1945
Vouchers Ruthven Station, 1945
Invoices Ruthven Station, 1945

Box 16
Cash book vouchers, 1945-1946
Invoices Ruthven Station, 1947
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1946
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1947

Box 17
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1946
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1948
Vouchers Ruthven Station, 1946
Invoices Ruthven Station, 1946
Invoices Ruthven Station, 1948

Box 18
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1947
Receipts Charlotte Plains Station, 1948-1949
Cash book vouchers, 1942-1944
Cash book vouchers, 1947-1949
Cash book vouchers, 1949-1950

Box 19
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1948
Vouchers Charlotte Plains Station, 1950-1951
Receipts Charlotte Plains Station, 1949-1950
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1948-1949
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1949-1950
Invoices Charlotte Plains Station, 1950-1951
Vouchers Ruthven Station, 1947
Vouchers Ruthven Station, 1948

Box 20
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 20’, 1943-1944
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 21’, 1944-1945
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 22’, 1945

Box 21
‘Letter outwards 23’, 1943-1946
‘Letter outwards 24’, 1946-1947

Box 22
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 25’, 1947
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 26’, 1947-1948
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 27’, 1948
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards 28’, 1948

Box 23
‘Letters received 62’, 1944
‘Letters received 63’, 1944-1945
‘Letters received 64’, 1945
‘Letters received 65’, 1945-1946

Box 24
‘Letters received 66’, 1946
‘Letters received 67’, 1946-1947
‘Letters received 68’, 1947

Box 25
‘Letters received 69’, 1947-1948
‘Letters received 70’, 1948

Box 26
‘Ruthven Letters Outwards’, 1951-1954
‘Ruthven Letters Received’, 1951-1954
‘Summary of Share Capital and Shares and List of Members’, 1940-1948
‘Share Transfers and Cancelled Share Certificates’, 1924-1947

Box 27
Tax records New South Wales and Queensland (includes federal and state income tax returns, pay roll tax, war time profits tax, federal land tax returns), 1914-1943
Stock returns Charlotte Plains Station 1944-1951; Ruthven Station 1944-1948
File ‘Replies to Departmental requisitions, Notices of Objection etc.’, 1922-1939
File ‘QLD Succession & Probate Duties, Returns & Assessments’, 1946-1952

Box 28
Memorandums for board meetings, audit reports, 1926-1956
‘Audit papers’ 1939-1953
‘Balance sheets’ (annual reports), 1912-1948
‘Re Leases, Live Stock, Depreciation Statement’, 1926-1938

Box 29
Audit papers Ruthven Limited, 1939-1945
Annual reports Ruthven Limited, 1941-1943
Audit programme Ruthven Limited and Rockwood Pastoral Company Limited, c. 1946
Deposit book,1937-1954
Memorandum and Articles of Association of Ruthven Limited, 1936.
Cheques, credit notes, 1954
Envelope ‘Ruthven Limited Current Deeds’, including voluntary liquidation documents (1948), report ‘Valuation of plant, furniture, second hand material and including a few live stock at “Ruthven” station, Isisford’ (1948), geological report Charlotte Plains Station (1935), Certificate of Incorporation (1911), ‘List of Returns lodged with Registrar-General under the Companies Act’ (liquidation notice, 1948), ‘Ruthven Limited Wool Realization (Distribution of Profits) Act, Application to participate in Special Distribution’ (1952), ‘Papers re sale of Ruthven Station’ (1948).

Box 30
Ruthven Limited Liquidators File Bank of New South Wales, 1958
Envelope containing 5 ‘Ruthven Limited’ rubber stamps
Correspondence re liquidation and shares, 1948-1950
Register of Mortgages and Charges, including list of directors forms, 1938-1946 [incomplete]
Correspondence and share certificates Ruthven Limited, 1924-1951
Liquidation accounts and statements, includes list of shareholders and correspondence, 1953-1957


OUTSIZE VOLUMES

31X
Ledger No.5 Charlotte Plains, 1931-1948

32X
Final Accounts, 1932-1952

33X
Ledger, 1943-1951

34X
Journal Charlotte Plains, 1944-1948

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