Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company records

MLMSS 11420/Boxes 1-8
MLMSS 11420/Volumes 9X-62X

fonds

1852-1934

9618581

12.98 metres of textual material (8 boxes and 54 outsize volumes)

The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company was formed in 1891 by the merger of the Newcastle Steamship Company and the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company.

This collection includes records from the companies that merged to form the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company.

BOX 1 - Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company
Transfer Documents, 1852-1859
‘Dividends for Half Year Ended 31st January 1888’
‘Dividend List for Half Year Ended 31st July 1888’
‘Dividend List for Half Year Ended 31st January 1889’
‘Dividend List for Half Year Ended 31st July 1889’
‘Dividend List, July 1989’
‘Reports of the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company from the 1st to the 10th instance’, 1852-1865
Shareholders Address Book. Includes List of shareholders, dividends, and half-yearly reports 1891.
Album with news clippings re Hunter River New Steam Navigation Co incl annual general meetings notifications and accidents, 1858-1863


BOX 2 - Newcastle Steamship Company; Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Newcastle Steamship Company correspondence (1888-1891)
Album containing half-yearly reports Newcastle Steamship Company, 1881-1890; half-yearly reports Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company, 1892 (first report) - 1916 [incomplete]; annual reports Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company: 1917-1930 [incomplete]. Also cncludes Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company Ltd, 1891.


BOX 3 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Rough Minute Book, 24th November 1891 - 15th March 1892
Rough Minute Book 29th March 1892 – 11th July 1893
Rough Minute Book, 21st July 1893 - 30th July 1895
Rough Minute Book, 28th September 1897 – 20th December 1898
Rough Minute Book, 27th March 1906 – 28th May 1907
Rough Minute Book, 11th June 1907 – 11th August 1908
Rough Minute Book, 25th August 1908 – 26th October 1909. Includes correspondence re Acts and Regulations, 1914-1921


BOX 4 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Notebook listing probate of wills regarding shares (including correspondence), 1890-1903
Receipts for Dividends Declared 29th July 1892
Receipts for Dividends Declared, 1893.
Through Nett Rates 1909, includes booklet the Newcastle & Hunter River Steamship Company Limited ‘Schedule of Fares & Freights’, 1911-1915
Through Nett Rates, 1915-1916. Includes booklet List of Stations, Sidings and Platforms, their Distances and Freight Rates, from Darling Harbour and Newcastle, 1917.
‘T.N. Rates’, 1 Nov 1918-1921
Supplies of Bread and Meat, 1912-1914
Register steamship supplies and suppliers, 1912-1913. Includes ‘Comparative Statement Paul & Gray’s supplies, six months, January to June 1912/1913’.
Register steamships: cost and number of tonnages, March-October 1916
Rough Minute Book, 10th June 1913 – 5th January 1915


BOX 5 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Reports to Directors, 1914
Acts and Regulations (includes correspondence), 1913-1924
File containing statements, statistics and comparisons regarding passengers, accommodation, coal cost, wages, repairs, supplies, overtime, watchmen, reconciliation, c. 1928-1934. Also includes manager’s report, trading statements and other financial records, c. 1928-1934.
File: The Overseas Shipping Representatives’ Association: minutes, proposals and reports re wharf labourers terms and conditions of employment, c. 1913. Includes a 1928 letter concerning wharf laborers. Also contains an 1883 plan ‘Proposed arrangement of new engines & boilers P.S. “City of Brisbane”’ and an 1887 sketch by R. Webster of ‘proposed overhead stage for Morpeth Wharf’.


BOX 6 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Receipts for Dividends Declared, 1893
Address Book, August 1913
‘Acts’, 1909-1924.
Rough Minute Book, 1909-1911
Rough Minute Book, 1911-1912


BOX 7 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Freight Book B, 1893-1897
Quotations (Ordinary), 1898-1920


BOX 8 - Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
Orders to Pay Dividends ‘1’, 1891-1896


OUTSIZE VOLUMES

Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company

9X Deed of Settlement, 1852-1868 [damaged and in poor condition]
10X Deed of Settlement, 1852-1889
11X Deed of Settlement, 1884-1890
12X Minute Book, ‘From 20th October 1855 to 5th November 1857’
13X Minute Book, 1857-1859
14X Minute Book, 1862-1866
15X Minute Book, ‘From 29th October 1866 to 7th January 1869’
16X Minute Book, 1872-1875
17X Minute Book, 1880-1882
18X Minute Book, 1882-1885
19X Minute Book (Morpeth), 1885-1888
20X Minute Book (Morpeth), 1888-1892. Includes Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Newcastle & Hunter River Steamship Company, Limited (1891).
21X Ledger, 1868-1874
22X Ledger, 1880-1892

Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company
23X Dividend Book, 1892-1905
24X Dividend Book, 1895-1905
25X Orders to Pay Dividends No 2,1896-1907
26X Orders to Pay Dividends No 3, 1907-1912
27X Dividend No 3, 1902-1912
28X Dividend No 4, 1910-1920
29X Share Register, Index
30X Share Register, 1892-1923
31X Journal A, 1892-1898
32X Ledger A, 1891-1898
33X Ledger B, 1898-1906
34X Ledger C, 1906-1913
35X Cash Book A, 1891-1895
36X Cash Book B, 1895-1900
37X Cash Book, 1900-1903
38X Cash Book D, 1903-1906
39X Cash Book E, 1906-1909
40X Minute Book No 1, 1891-1894
41X Minute Book [No 2?], 1894-1897
42X Minute Book No 3, 1897-1900
43X Minute Book No 4, 1900-1903
44X Minute Book No 5, 1903-1906
45X Minute Book No 6, 1906-1908
46X Minute Book No 7, 1908-1911
47X Minute Book No 8, 1911-1913
48X Minute Book No 9, 1913-1916
49X Freight Book [?C], 1898-1911 [spine missing]
50X Freight Book D, 1912-1921
51X Journal, 1899-1903
52X Journal, 1907-1910
53X Journal, 1911-1914
54X Index Share Ledger, includes 'Certificate of British Registry' for ship Patterson, 1891
55X Index [to Account Book?]
56X Index
57X Receipts Cash Book F, 1909-1912
58X Receipts Cash Book G, 1912-1915
59X Expenditure Cash Book F, 1909-1911
60X Expenditure Cash Book G, 1911-1913/4
61X Expenditure Cash Book H, 1914-1916
62X Scrapbook containing various unused Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company form and list templates such as passenger lists, inventories, order forms, freight charts and summaries, commander’s reports, shipping receipts, wage slips, , weight tickets, luggage tags. Also includes letterheads and a 1915 annual report.

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