Scottish Australian Investment Company records

MLMSS 11391/Boxes 1-21
MLMSS 11391/Volumes 22X-75X

fonds

approximately 1840-1930

Textual Records, Clippings

9626433

7.22 metres of textual material (21 boxes and 54 outsize volumes)

The collection contains the records of the Scottish Australian Investment Company (later known as the Scottish Australian Company), predominantly relating to the Nive Downs station (north of Charleville, Queensland) which the company owned and managed. Also includes a ‘General Balance Book’ relating to several pastoral properties managed by the Scottish Australian Investment Company.

NIVE DOWNS STATION

BOX 1
Correspondence, invoices, and ephemera e.g. pamphlet from 'Machine Shearers & Shed Employees Union' c. 1900-1925.

BOX 2
Correspondence, invoices and ephemera e.g. pamphlet relating to the Dingo Act (c.1919) 1894-1925.

BOX 3
Correspondence, invoices and ephemera c.1910-1920.

BOX 4
Correspondence, invoices, map, Nive Downs ‘Tally Book’ 1910 and Augathella Hospital Rules booklet 1910.

BOX 5
Correspondence, receipts and invoices 1900-1920.

BOX 5
Correspondence, ephemera, receipts, relating to shearing, fencing and other Nive Downs Station business, c.1894-1920. Also includes Nive Downs ‘Tally Book’ 1914, Augathella Hospital finance sheets and ‘Sheepman’s Notebook’ 1915.

BOX 7
Accounts Book, Nive Downs 1918.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1918-1919.

BOX 8
‘Australian Rough Diary’ 1920.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1885-1890.
Ledger, Nive Downs Invoices 1891-1987.
Store Ledger, Nive Downs 1916-1921.
‘Tally Book’, Nive Downs 1909.
Day book, contains lists of stock and provisions 1919-1920.

BOX 9
Letter Book, Scottish Australia Company 1900-1901.
Day book, contains lists of stock and provisions 1916-1918.
Cash book 1918.
Notebook 1902.
Notebook, Index to ‘Papers in Press’.
Shearing Book, Nive Downs 1914-1916.

BOX 10
General Information Book, relating to employees, banking, supplies, stock, shearing and correspondence Nive Downs 1912-1920.
Ledger of Moorehead’s Invoices (B. D. Morehead and Co). [The company was established in 1873 by Boyd Morehead, son of Robert Morehead, Manager for the Scottish Australian Investment Company. Nive Downs 1909-1917.] Nive Downs 1909-1917.
Return of employees 1907-1918.
Wool Book, Nive Downs 1916.
Wool Book, Nive Downs 1893.
List of Nive Downs sheep shorn at Saltern Creek c.1906.
Stock Book, Nive Downs 1890-1917.

BOX 11
Wool Book, Specification of Nive Downs Clip 1918-1923.
Letter Book, Nive Downs c.1920-1934.
Letter Book, Nive Downs c.1920-1930.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1893-1898.

BOX 12
Wool Clip Book, Nive Downs 1911.
Journal, Nive Downs Stores, includes separate sheets listing ‘Stock on Hand’ 1919-1931.
Expense Book, relating to sheep management, rations, maintenance and shearing 1905-1917.
Journal, contains cheques drawn by managers; J.A. Brodie, J. Armstrong, P.H Armstrong, Nive Downs 1917-1921.
Horse Book. ‘Return of horses and classification’, Nive Downs 1915-1917.
Journal, contains cheques drawn by manager T.A. Brodie, Nive Downs 1909-1913.

BOX 13
Journal, Nive Downs 1908-1913.
Memo Book, relating to rabbit proof fencing, rabbit and marsupial netting 1897-1906.
Store Book, ‘Tools issued and to be returned’ 1910-1914.
Store Day Book 1915-1916.

BOX 14
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1897-1900.
Horse Book relating to ‘Return of horses and classification’ 1898-1915.
Letter Book, Nive Downs C.1915-1916.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1912-1915. [very poor condition, severely damaged]

BOX 15
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1914-1917.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1913-1915.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1903-1904.

BOX 16
Wool Book, Specification of Nive Downs Clip, 1897-1905 [very poor condition, severely damaged]
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1889-1891.
Wool Book, ‘Specification of Nive Downs Clip’ 1906-1911.

BOX 17
Ledger Book, Nive Downs 1921-1931.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1912-1914.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1916-1921.

BOX 18
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1894-1896.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1891-1892.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1923-1931.

Box 19
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1931-1936.
‘Australian Rough Diary’, Nive Downs 1918.
Letter Book, Scottish Australia Investment Co. 1907-1917.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1901-1904.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1918-1920.

BOX 20
Store Day Book 1910-1913.
Letter Book, Nive Downs 1919-1922.
Ledger, Nive Downs 1890-1894.
Petty Cash, Nive Downs 1912-1918.

BOX 21
Journal, Nive Downs. B. W. Morehead and Co. December 1888-1895.
Wool Book, Specifications of Nive Downs Clip 1911-1917.

OUTSIZE VOLUMES

22X Schedule of improvements, Nive Downs Station 1889-1914.
23X Schedule of improvements, Nive Downs Station 1887-1888.
24X Scroll Cash Book, Nive Downs 1918-1925.
25X Ledger, relating to droving, maintenance, rabbit fencing, wool, Nive Downs 1918-1923.
26X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1908-1910.
27X Ledger, Nive Downs 1889-1893.
28X Journal, Nive Downs 1874-1889.
29X Ledger, Nive Downs 1919-1921.
30X Ledger Balances, Nive Downs 1897-1905.
31X Journal, Nive Downs 1889-1901.
32X Fair Cash Book Nive Downs 1900-1947.
33X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1900-1903.
34X Journal, Nive Downs 1904-1907.
35X Abstract of Expenditure, Nive Downs 1895-1906.
36X Balance Accounts No 5, Nive Downs 1896-1898.
37X Ledger Balances, Nive Downs 1889-1896.
38X Scroll Cash Book, Nive Downs 1904-1911.
39X Contractor’s Ledger, Nive Downs 1916-1950.
40X Cattle Returns, Nive Downs 1891-1902.
41X Index to Employees Ledger, Nive Downs.
42X Index to Employees Ledger.
43X Index to Employees Ledger.
44X Index to Employees Ledger.
45X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs. Union Bank, Brisbane 1916-1917.
46X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs. Union Bank, Brisbane 1912-1913.
47X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs. Union Bank, Brisbane 1913.
48X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs. Union Bank, Brisbane 1910-1911.
49X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs. Union Bank, Brisbane 1915-1916.
50X Cheque Stub Book, Nive Downs Union Bank, Brisbane 1915.
51X General Ledger, Nive Downs 1902-1914.
52X Cash Book, Nive Downs 1909-1911.
53X Balance Account Book, contains notes on other pastoral properties such as Bowen Downs, Corella, Nive Downs, and Mount Abundance. These relate to sheep returns, profit and loss 1898-1900. These properties were all managed by the Scottish Australian Investment Company.
54X Wool Clip, Nive Downs 1884-1892.
55X Wool Book, Nive Downs 1892-1897.
56X Shearing Ledger, Nive Downs 1890-1910.
57X Cattle Returns, Nive Downs 1907-1915.
58X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1894-1900 (includes separate index).
59X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1905-1907.
60X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1911-1914.
61X Employees Ledger, Nive Downs 1915-1918 (includes separate index).
62X Abstract of Expenditure, Nive Downs 1873-1879 (includes Abstract of Expanditure for Mount Abundance, 1879).
63X Abstract of Expenditure, Nive Downs 1879-1894.
64X Abstract of Expenditure, Nive Downs 1906-1917.
65X Scroll Cash Book, Nive Downs 1892-1897.
66X Scroll Cash Book, Nive Downs 1897-1904.
67X Scroll Cash Book, Nive Downs 1911-1917.
68X Journal, Nive Downs 1902-1909.
69X Journal, Nive Downs 1909-1918 (includes pages from ‘The Pastoralists’ Review’, 1907-1912).
70X Journal, Nive Downs 1918-1925.
71X Invoice Book, Nive Downs 1916-1921.
72X Day/Ration Book, Nive Downs 1889-1916.
73X Day Book, Nive Downs 1919-1922.
74X General ledger, Nive Downs 1891-1901.
75X Ledger Balance, Nive Downs 1906-1919.

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Business Archives Council of Australia NSW Branch, survey of records 1961