Corporate entry: Wanetta Pearling Company Records
Summary
Items: six boxes, two volumes. Shelf Location: 73L-75L. The partnership of James Clark and Reg Hocking, established in 1898, was involved in the pearl diving industry based on Thursday Island. Operations halted in 1905 when the fleets transferred to the Am Islands, however Hocking returned to Thursday Island in 1908 to found the Wanetta Pearling Company, named after the mother ship of his pearling luggers, the schooner Wanetta. On the death of Reg Hocking in 1930 the company was taken over by his nephews Norman and Frank. After extensive damage to the fleet during the Second World War, it was rebuilt and the company was renamed H.O. & R.N. Hocking Pty. This company became defunct on the death of Norman Hocking in 1969.
Records cover the years 1900-1927, and are listed in the order of cataloguing.
Documents.
Accounts and correspondence, 1900-1905, very frail, WPC.1.
Accounts, pp.27; letter p.1, 1910, WPC.2.
Accounts 1911, pp.23, WPC3.
Correspondence, accounts, bills of loading, Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Company, 1912, pp.80, WPC.4.
Accounts, 1913, pp.167, WPC.5/1.
Telegrams, 1913, pp.23, WPC.5/2.
Certificates of discharge, 1913, pp.4, WPC.5/3.
Correspondence, official material regarding Aboriginal and Japanese employees, 1913, pp.9, WPC.5/4.
Correspondence, company business, 1913, pp.23, WPC.5/5.
Correspondence, personal, 1913, pp.22, WPC.5/6.
Account, 1914, pp.94, WPC.6/1.
Telegrams, 1914, pp.14, WPC.6/2.
Certificates of discharge, 1914, pp.3, WPC.6/3.
Correspondence, official material regarding Aboriginal and Japanese employees, 1914, pp.9, WPC.6/4.
Correspondence, company business, 1914, pp.66, WPC.6/5.
Correspondence, personal, 1914, pp.31, WPC.6/6.
Accounts, 1915, pp.12, WPC.7/1.
Telegrams, 1915, pp.3, WPC.7/2.
Correspondence, company business, 1915, pp.11, WPC.7/3.
Correspondence, personal, 1915, pp.11, WPC.7/4.
Accounts, 1916, pp.57, WPC.8/1.
Telegrams, 1916, pp.78, WPC.8/2.
Correspondence, company business, 1916, pp.25, WPC.8/3.
Correspondence, personal, 1916, pp.40, WPC.8/4.
Accounts, 1917, pp.58, WPC.9/1.
Telegrams, 1917, pp.61, WPC.9/2.
Correspondence, company business, 1917, pp.39, WPC.9/3.
Correspondence, personal, 1917, pp.9, WPC.9/4.
Accounts 1918, pp.320; Papua Native Labour Ordinance of 1916 Schedule, p.1; service contracts, pp.10; receipts 1918, pp.335, WPC.10.
Account 1919, p.1; letter 1919, p.1, miscellaneous accounts, letters and telegrams, n.d., pp.54, WPC.11.
Miscellaneous documents, photocopies, pp.12; handwritten copy p.1, WPC.12.
Reports of the Torres Straits Hospital for the year 1911, pp.8, WPC.13.
Wages book, 1907, index in back, one volume, WPC.14.
Ledger, company accounts, February 1913-July 1915, one volume, WPC.15.
Ledger, company accounts, August 1915-February 1921, one volume, WPC.16.
Ledger, company accounts, January 1919-February 1921, one volume, WPC.17.
Ledger, company accounts, March 1921-August 1922, one volume, WPC.18.
Ledger, company accounts, March 1925-June 1927, one volume, WPC.19. DELAMOTHE.