Corporate entry: Burns Philip and Company Limited, Landsborough Street, Normanton. 4870
Summary
This branch of the company continues to operate as a principal agent and general store, servicing Normanton and the hinterland.
Balance account statement of assets and liabilities, Burns Philp, Normanton branch, (monthly), February, 1918-January 1923, 1 volume.
Shipping reports, (monthly), March 1918-April 1921, included in the above volume.
Security register, December 1888-March 1917, 1 volume (Burns Philp performed a banking service prior to the establishment of banks in Normanton).
Purchaser's book, stores account, February 1910-January 1946, 1 volume.
Sales book, September 1948-February 1950, 1 volume.
Journal, December 1933-January 1947, 1 volume.
Typescript Memorandum of Agreement, 7th December 1899, between the Australian United Steam Navigation Company Limited and Thomas William Robertson of Normanton in the Colony of Queensland, Lighter Proprietor, unsigned, 7 December 1899, foolscap, pp. 5. The above is a contract for the provision of lighter services for the Normanton wharf. The A.U.S.N. Co. LTD, was incorporated within Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. Printed records include:
Private Supplementary Codes, Burns Philp and Company Limited:
1. Private Code for use in conjunction with Bently's Code between Messrs Burn, Philp & Co. LTD, Normanton Q., and Gibb, Livingstone & Co. LTD, Hong Kong, [1926], 1 volume.
2. Private Code (to be used in conjunction with Bentley's Complete Phrase Code) No. 4, Burns Philp & Company Limited. To operate from 1st January, 1936, 1 volume, includes index, branch information, companies and persons, ports and towns, vessels, merchandise involved, wines and spirits, general phrases, ciphers in terminational order.
Photographs, 8 framed prints of Burns Philp and A.U.S.N. Co. ships, including S.S. Kanowna and S.S. Wyandra, also company officers.
Management of the Normanton branch advised they intended to set up a small museum, including the above records, plus old furniture and museum pieces, in the Burns Philp premises.