Party: Beacom, William Andrew
Summary
Papers 1903-1949, 1970. William Beacon 1873-1966 came to Queensland from New Zealand in 1911; worked as a farm labourer and later acquired a dairy farm at Peeramon, near Malanda. Correspondence, documents including rate and rent notices, taxation forms, accounts, financial records, licenses, certificates, ration cards, tickets, newspapers, photographs. Records cover farming life in north Queensland and include considerable correspondence with friends serving overseas during the Second World War. Detailed list available. 0.8m. Oxley: O.M. 71-19.