Party: Graziers Organizations - Brisbane, The United Graziers Association of Queensland, 127 Creek Street, Brisbane
Summary
The United Graziers Association Union of Employers was founded in 1890. Head office of the organization is in Brisbane and regional offices are located in Charleville, Cunnamulla, Longreach, Rockhampton, Roma and Toowoomba. The Association records are held in the head office library which is available for study purposes to approved researchers. Library holdings include the following:
Minutes of UGA council meetings, 1890-present. Other minutes of various meetings are held, sometimes in single volumes, sometimes bound with reports, these include records of Australian Wool Growers' Council National Council of Wool Selling Brokers. Graziers Federal Council Graziers Vigilance Committee, (1932) Arbitration Advisory Committee Australian Pastoral Research Trust Special Meetings, (miscellaneous), bound together, from ca.1930.
Reports from Graziers' Federal Council of Australia, includes reports and minutes of council meetings, June 1927-present.
Report of the Wool Advisory Commission of 1939-1940, with UGA evidence to the Commission, 1 vol.
Annual reports, Australian Wool Board ca.1927-present, also includes reports of the International Wool Secretariat, several vols.
Reports of the general secretary UGA of Queensland 1973-1978, single copies.
Report of the Philp Wool Enquiry, 1961-1962, 2 vols.
Report of the Australian National University Wool Seminar, 1957-1959.
Annual reports, Agricultural and Dairy Production, Queensland, 1922-1938, including statistics, government papers, bound vols.
Share register, UGA members and transfers, from 1921, 1 vol.
Register of stock returns, (horses, cattle and sheep), Queensland 1894-1941, arranged in alphabetical order by Petty Sessions district, 30 vols.
Register of professional woolclassers, (recent record).
Circulars, from UGA Brisbane, to the secretary of Queensland branch offices, advising on a wide range of topics concerning the pastoral industry, December 1955-present. (Subjects include marketing and production, labour and industrial matters, services, taxation, transport regulations, Acts of Parliament and their interpretation, some reports and extracts of minutes also included).
Newspaper cutting books, regarding Shearers' Strike of 1956, 3 vols.
Newspaper cutting books, regarding Australian Workers' Union conference, 1967, 1 vol.
Additional cutting books, relating to the pastoral industry in general, recent extracts, several vols.
Statistics of the agricultural and pastoral sectors, Queensland, from 1898, several vols.
Applications to various Industrial Awards, relating to the pastoral industry, 1918-present, several vols.
Addresses presented at conferences and meetings of pastoral industry representatives from ca.1921, printed booklets.
Manuscript History of the United Graziers Association of Queensland 1890-1932, with newspaper extracts and tables inserted, pp.215, 3 exercise books, also unpublished printed copy, foolscap, pp.74
The library holds a considerable collection of printed sources including historical publications and hand books relating to the pastoral industry, also government publications including parliamentary records.
Australasian Pastoralists' Review, no. 1, March 1891-1971, 81 vols.
The Graziers' Review, no. 1, Vol. 1, April 1921-July 1935, 15 vols. Also files of the official journal of the UGA, The Grazier which is supplied to Association members, and issued monthly. Intending researchers should apply in advance for access to records and library facilities. The library is open Monday-Friday 9.00am-5.00 pm. See also Graziers Association of Central and Northern Queensland, Longreach.