Corporate entry: Dalgety Australia Limited

Summary

Records 1843-1976. Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety was a foundation partner in Dalgety, Borrowdale & Gore, established in Melbourne in 1846. This was the first in a succession of partnerships involving Dalgety in the settler trade: supplying merchandise for squatters and buying their produce. In 1854 Dalgety established a head office in London, and from 1869 branch companies were founded in New Zealand and later in Sydney and Newcastle. In 1884 the various firms were incorporated into a joint stock company, Dalgety & Co.; Australian expansion continued, including Queensland branches in Rockhampton 1891, Brisbane 1894 and Townsville 1896. Since the Second World War Dalgety has diversified broadly and re-organized and modified its rural role, including a move into pastoral investment, through Pastoral Development (Holdings) Ltd, formed in 1964, and the New Zealand and Australian Land Company which was acquired in 1968. In 1961 Dalgety & Co. Ltd, merged with New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd to form Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd, renamed Dalgety Ltd in 1970. There has been a further merger since then, and the current company title is Dalgety Winchcombe. Records are of the Australian office and numerous branch and sub-branch offices throughout mainland Australia. The holding of 24 deposits is extensive, comprising 962 linear feet and 4 reels of microfilm. The following is a general description of the Australian Office and Brisbane and Rockhampton Branch records, and a more detailed listing of Longreach Sub-branch and Townsville Branch records.

Dalgety & Co. Ltd: Share papers, 1953-1959.

Reports of superintendents' and managers' conferences 1949-1960.

Accounts of Dalgety and subsidiaries, 1968-1973.

Branch reports, including Townsville and Rockhampton reports, 1956-1961.

Miscellaneous instruction manuals, memos, 1948-1969.

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency: Memo book, 1894-1902.

Correspondence files concerning the Dalgety New Zealand Loan merger, 1961-1962.

Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd: Budget papers, and forecasts, 1969-1972.

Printed material: Annual reports (Dalgety & Co. Ltd, D.N.Z.L., Dalgety Ltd, and Dalgety Australia Ltd), 1902-1975, incomplete.

Dalgety Catalogues and Guides, 1967-1976. Five feet. A.B.L. 163/1-159.

Dalgety and Co. Ltd, Brisbane.

Reports: Entitled Head Office, Superintendents' Departmental, Profit and Loss and Branch, including reports from Rockhampton and Townsville Branches, 1895-1961, ca. 20 boxes. A.B.L. 100/10/1-11.

Correspondence: Superintendent's (later General Manager's) files, regarding business clients and general matters, also special superintendent's files, internal and confidential files, file indexes, 1914-1963, one bundle, 31 volumes, 30 boxes. A.B.L. 100/10/12-16.

Letterbooks: Books entitled Secretary and General Manager, Superintendent, Head Office, Staff etc, also Letterbook of R.H. Moss, Brisbane, Sub-manager 1907-1927, and Flower and Hart (solicitors) Letterbook, 1914-1948, 15 binders, 15 volumes. A.B.L. 100/10/17-25.

Minutes of Managers' Conference, Sydney, 19-23 October 1959. A.B.L. 100/10/26.

Financial records: Balance books, profit and loss results, ledgers, journals, wages analysis, taxation records etc., 1894-1961. one file, one bundle, 33 volumes, three boxes. A.B.L. 100/10/27-38.

Wool records: Including wool statistics, sales catalogues, letters and memos regarding new wool store, newspaper extracts, Dalgety publications, 1892-1956, one binder, one file, 33 volumes. A.B.L. 100/10/39-45.

Miscellaneous: Including Memorandum and Articles of Association of Queensland Meat Export Co. Ltd, 1915, and Australian Stock Breeders Co. Ltd, 1915; additional printed material, 1902-1915. one box. A.B.L. 100/10/46-49.

Securities: Securities and associated documents, ca. 1894-ca. 1935, 12 boxes. A.B.L. 100/10/50.

Sub-groups: Correspondence and documents regarding Dalgety's Properties (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1953-1965;

Letterbook and ledgers regarding Dalgety & Co. Ltd, Toowoomba Sub-Branch, 1906-1924, four volumes, one box. A.B.L. 100/10/51-54.

Dalgety and Company Limited, Rockhampton Branch: Includes some records of Dalgety N.Z.L. Ltd, 1961-1970.

Correspondence, management section. A.B.L. 100/5/1-8.

Managers' reports, financial returns, securities. A.B.L. 100/5/9-23.

Ledgers and cash records. A.B.L. 100/5/24-36.

Miscellaneous financial records. A.B.L. 100/5/37-43.

Records regarding Departments of Shipping, Stock and Station, Insurance and Wool. A.B.L. 100/5/44-55.

Records regarding Dalgety subsidiaries: Williams Pty Ltd, Rockhampton, (acquired 1943) and Friends Pty Ltd, Gladstone (acquired 1949). A.B.L. 100/5/56-63.

Records regarding Brisbane and Melbourne Branches, Townsville subsidiary and Dalgety Trading Co. A.B.L. 100/5/64-68.

Dalgety publications and internal reports. A.B.L. 100/5/69-76.

Material regarding woolbrokers staff associations. A.B.L. 100/5/77.

Miscellaneous printed matter and photographs. A.B.L. 100/5/78-80.

1898-1970, 54 linear feet. A.B.L. 100/5/1-80.

Dalgety and Company Ltd, Longreach Sub-branch. Ledger cards: Personal accounts, July 1957-May 1962, Impersonal accounts, July 1957-December 1960, includes Aramac Sub-branch ledger cards, two boxes: 24 cm. A.B.L. 100/8/1-2.

Profit estimates and reports to Brisbane Branch, 1958-1961, one folder: 1 cm. A.B.L. 100/8/3.

Register of property sales, March 1928-February 1962, one volume: 2 cm. A..B.L. 100/8/4.

Register of property valuations, including some loose sales notices, ca. 1935-1952. one binder: 3 cm. A.B.L. 100/8/5.

Register of stock sales, April 1960-November 1961. one volume: 4 cm. A.B.L. 100/8/6.

Dalgety and Company Ltd, Townsville Branch. Includes some records of Dalgety N.Z.L. Ltd, 1961-1963.

Letterbooks and correspondence: Managers' outward letters, August 1896-November 1924.

Correspondence with General Manager for Australia, October 1848-May 1949; September 1957-May 1958, 12 volumes, two folders. A.B.L. 100/6/1.

Departments' correspondence, July 1932-December 1934, 13 folders. A.B.L. 100/6/2.

Balance documents, including securities lists and reports on advance accounts to 1916, 1896/1897-1899/1900 one volume, presscopy. 1900/1901-December 1907 one volume, presscopy. 1907/1908-1911/1912, one volume, presscopy. 1912/1913-191571916, one volume, presscopy. 1959/1960, one volume, presscopy. 1960/1961, one volume. 1961/1962, one volume. A.B.L. 100/6/3.

Manager's reports to Head Office, London and General Manager for Australia on branch operations and advance accounts includes sub-branches, departmental and McKimmins Pty Ltd (from 1949), reports and some securities lists, 1908/1909-1962/1963, eight boxes. A.B.L. 100/6/4.

Registers of secured accounts, including details of loan applications, securities, livestock, weather and pasture reports, etc., "Security account book", 1898-1912, "History: secured accounts", July 1909-July 1915, "History: secured accounts", June 1915-December 1923, Two volumes, one binder. A.B.L. 100/6/5.

Ledgers, July 1896-June 1933, July-December 1934, incomplete 10 binders, 28 volumes. A.B.L. 100/6/6.

Journal, Hughenden sub-branch, 26 February 1936-31 May 1937, one volume. A.B.L. 100/6/7.

Dalgety publications and internal reports: Chief Australian Inspector's report to Superintendent on Townsville Branch, 5 March 1937, pp.119.

Report of Manager's Conference, Sydney 19-23 October 1959, pp.163.

Australian Produce Manager's report on Australian produce, (export/import) activities, 1955/56, pp.47. as above, 1956/57, pp.45.

Memorandum of Association and new or substituted Articles of Association, ca.1930, pp.50.

Memorandum and Articles of Association, ca.1948, pp.39.

Memorandum and Articles of Association, ca.1955, pp.43. seven volumes. A.B.L. 100/6/8. A.B.L. total company deposits: 100/1-10, 139-141, 147-151, 156, 157, 163, Microfilms M48, M68. Restricted Access. See also: New Zealand and Australian Land Co. Ltd, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd.