Cultural Artefact: A.D. Murgatroyd Collection
Summary
Items: two boxes. Shelf Location: 70R.
Correspondence file, Hermit Park Branch Australian Labor Party, in and out letters, 1941-1942; also pamphlet: The Australian Labor Party and the Communists, two copies, one folder.
Minutes of meetings, Hermit Park Branch of the Australian Labor Party, January 1935-March 1941, one volume.
Minutes of meetings. Hermit Park Labor Aldermen's Caucus, April 1946-August 1946, one volume.
Minutes of meetings, correspondence, newspaper extracts, election pamphlets, advertisements, regarding Townsville City Council elections, 1949, one folder.
Report: Townsville Fire Brigade Report for Year Ended 30th June, 1943, Townsville, 1943, pp.19, plus appendix listing details of fires attended.
Constitution, North Queensland Development League, foolscap, roneoed, typescript, pp.2, damaged.
Cutting book, Council News 1945, includes correspondence, government papers, Townsville bus services rosters, timetables, papers regarding proposed purchase of service by Townsville City Council 1946-1948, also comparative data covering Rockhampton bus service, one folder.
Newspaper extracts, typescripts, and pamphlets, Townsville City Council, 1946-1949, one folder.
Typescript, McMahon J. New State League: Its aims and policy. The problem of north Queensland. Non-party politics and stability. Emancipating a great territory. Unpublished paper, foolscap, roneoed, pp.13, including copies of correspondence received regarding the "New State Draft Policy", ca.1929.
Poetry, O'Sullivan T., 'Flats and Mullock Heaps', typescript, pp.2, two copies, memoirs of early Charters Towers.
Collection of papers and pamphlets, the Australian Natives' Association, ca.1937-1942, one folder.
Published material includes:
Aikens, T. Aikens in Action on the Problems of the North, pamphlet containing extracts of parliamentary speeches by Aikens member for Mundingburra, during the 1949 session, pp.14, two copies.
Fadden, Arthur W. A Review of the Australian Tobacco Industry. Its Position and Possibilities. What it means to Queensland. Townsville, Willmett & Sons Ltd, 1932, soft bound booklet, pp.20.
Larcombe, Hon. J. M.L.A. The Case for Labor. An Outline of the History of Labor Government in Queensland, Part I. Brisbane, The Worker Newspaper, n.d. [ca.1940], soft bound booklet, pp.84.
Rhodes, Captain F. Australia's Maritime History, "Report of a lecture delivered before the Rockhampton Branch of the Australian Natives' Association of Queensland by Captain F. Rhodes, Associate Editor of the Morning Bulletin and Editor of the Central Queensland Herald, on May 18th 1933", softbound booklet, pp.20.
By-laws of the City of Townsville, 1927, Brisbane, Government Printer, 1927.
Mt Isa Mines. Real Facts Associated with the Mt Isa Dispute, Brisbane, The Worker Newspaper, n.a., n.d. [ca.1965], soft bound booklet, pp.27.
Additional Queensland government publications and some items of more national political concern are included in this collection. DELAMOTHE.